I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.

Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

Not forgiving somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the offender will get sick.

Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim.

New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and... you know, 72 hours of ice cream.

You don't come into the more without responding to what you already know.

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.