That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

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.

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

The story is uneven in its progression.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...