Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.

Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.

Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.

Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low, it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

People mainly fail because they fear failure.

I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.