Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

i was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.

I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.