“Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action....”

“Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.”

“Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.”

“Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.”

“I toast life and taste it's goodness”

“Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.”

“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”