The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

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.

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.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

You're the one I like. Maybe love.

To improve your being, appreciate yourself for simplest of reasons.

I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that.

That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage.

In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.

Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking