What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Somehow they were entwining without touch, following a choreography laid down in time for lovers.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

Elena. Hush, let me talk to the crazy lady.

We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but there are particular causes.

That is the wonderful ecological mind that Gregory Bateson talks about - the patterns that connect, the stories that inform and inspire us and teach us what is possible