The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

That which costs little is less valued.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.