Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. 

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prisms, are all very good words for the lips.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

The best way to get a bad law repeal is to enforce it strictly.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.