A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
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.
Get off your butt and join the Marines!
I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Once you label me you negate me.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.