It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

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.

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

I live for the nights that I can't remember with the people that I won't forget.

Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

One possibility for difficulties innovating is that most people really donÕt care about innovation.

Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.