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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

Life is a game, you can't afford to lose.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.

I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

If you dont educate your kids... I will.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.