Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Every Human creates for another Human, So every Human has a 'Hope' for other Human, Try to recognize and never let it down because your 'Hope' is also in hand of another Human.

I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.

Humility is truth.

Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.

Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.