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.

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

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Americas 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.

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

Hospitality still survives among foreigners although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

My hair is very fine, so I use Tigi Bed Head Small Talk before I blow dry for volume, and I'm a firm believer in Tigi Rockaholic dry shampoo to keep volume throughout the day.

I guess if your heart's in the right place, the trash can go anywhere.

I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.

I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.

Theres only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and thats a holy life.

I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts.

In the universe there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power there are forces and people that will oppose you.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

Color rather than shape is more closely related to emotion.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty.

I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don't care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don't disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you.