The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

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.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

True nirvana will come when we enlighten the world of awareness and higher consciousness.

We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche.

Fear is the enemy of success.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

Simon snorted. "If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you'll have to let me know. I'd like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I'm not sure which.

Blue eyes say "Love me or I die" black eyes say "Love me or I kill thee."

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.