The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

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.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.

Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

You can go far on hard work and big dreams, often a hell of a lot farther - and faster - than people with more education and experience.

The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.