Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

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 mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

Kato looks ill. “I… It… Me…” He stares at the massive snake. “Big.”

Do ACTS of MERCY in a BIG WAY.

Lust and force are the source of all our actions lust causes voluntary actions force involuntary ones.

Change occurs when one becomes what she is not when she tries to become what she is not.

In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.