The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

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.

I’m sure I am wrong about many things, although I’m not sure exactly which things I’m wrong about. I’m even sure I’m wrong about what I think I’m right about in at least some cases.

Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!

It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.

I rarely fly, for environmental reasons more than anything else.

Eventually, people are going to find out I can play.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.