We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway..

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it..

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking..

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the i….

Crowds speak in heroes..

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his….

Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city;….

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu..

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand..

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here..

America is a tune. It must be sung together..

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world..

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before..

We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of st….

The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound.….

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time..

There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service firs….

I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living ….

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity..

The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what ….

A vice is a failure of desire.