If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Give up trying to make me give up

Each soul is potentially divine.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

A person preaches well that lives well.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.