Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

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.

The closer one gets to the top the more one finds there is no "top."

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

Education is our passport to the future.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

Be you and I think people will recognize the special things about yourself. Just be you, and be you to the fullest.

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.