The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

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.

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.

It's all right if people think we are idiots.It's all right if we lie face down on the earth.It's all right if we open the coffin and climb in.

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

I'm doing this for me.

Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.

Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.

You’re a song, a wished-for song.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.