The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

People are successful because they think and act like successful people.

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died

I was sane once. It was horrible.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.

I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.