There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment.

Helping others is like helping yourself.

I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.

The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.

To build is to be robbed.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.