Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

Women are sneaky.

Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

A sacred spiritual-life is the greatest gratification

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.