Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters

We become what we believe

Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your EGO, you turn them into a commodity and thats why every relationship gets ruined. Mind YOU!

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

I think that Rahm Emanuel's political career is going to be very difficult to revive after the mismanagement.

Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.

The Devil invented gambling.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.