Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid.

Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.

he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

She was afraid of heightsbut she was much more afraid of never flying.

The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ is totally of life.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

That's what happens when you're making a movie, you find yourself really loving all these people sitting across from you.

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.

How do you hold down government spending?

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.