I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil toh shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Compassion can make friends out of enemies.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and become the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego go with it.

Small mindedness can turn a big man into a small man in no time.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot log retain it. 

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.