All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

At the graveyard there was no hope, so there was nothing to lose and no chance for disappointment.

I'm a huge fan of Big L. He is my favorite rapper.

I am always cautious about naming the known, as we often forget to hold in regard those whose names will never be known to anyone outside of their close circle.

I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

Too often we worry about how the others react-but it's YOUR reaction that they monitor.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.