It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

The invisible God.

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

As it was, being a Zimbabwean immigrant was the worst thing a person could be in Southern Africa. They were the new Hebrews – homeless.

Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Savor the moments that are warm and special and giggly.

From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.