... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

You might plan how to sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans how to wake up is a Dreamer.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.

A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.

The greatest griefs are silent.