“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

The majority never has right on its side.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

You don’t need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.

Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing.

The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.