The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

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.

The Sin against God’s Law Resulted in the Fall of Man

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

Thank you.” His lips curved up on one side. “For what?” “For waiting for me.

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.