Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - The Color Purple, 1982.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,-- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushed toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

I'm the best. I just haven't played yet .

Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Pride is something we have. Vanity is something others have.