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

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't make your character that people can walk on it, make your character as sky so that people would dream to get there

Take ACTION! When we DO NOT take action, our potentiality becomes the soil that houses the seeds of our regret.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?