If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years.

That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.

Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

Wine we need for health, and the health we need to drink vodka.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'