The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

Love everyone you meet, everyone will love you.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

I think that things are going to change just because people get too damn bored with what they have.

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?

The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.

The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.