Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Developing the man within leads to changing a man’s value and behavior

I smile broadly, feeling as warm and full as the sun.

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

Trails need to be wider so people can walk while holding hands.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.

People who work hard for their money cannot be placed in a worse position that those who allow their money to work for them.

Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.