You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

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

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

An idea is salvation by imagination

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

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.