Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

Revolutions never go backward.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

You cannot limit the power of your modesty to just what you wear. It is also controlled or forfeited by where you are willing to go with guys, why you go there, and how you act.

If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

What's the worst that can happen? A tidal wave? Glaciers with guns?