Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

The sweetest happiness is one that we share .

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

It’s hard not to root for Henrik Lundqvist, he’s practically perfect.