The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Socialism is a dead horse.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.

Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.

The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.

I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

Get yourself out of the way, and let Joy have more space.

Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.