The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
What is to give light must endure burning.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Nothing is black or white.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
