Fear of being wrong paralyzes people. Get over it! If you're wrong, invent a new narrative and move on." - L. R. W. Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.

Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.