A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.

I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?

Every community has its own specialty and it's not just for clothing obviously, but for the home, etc.