To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.

Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.

I was born in Northampton, in Burlington County, West Jersey, in the year 1720.

Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself

A patient dog will have no bone to eat because other dogs have eaten

Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.

It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.

Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!

Every video you see in the movie we have an entire video of it that will be on the DVD, so the whole video for African Child, the whole video for Super Tight, you know the Jackie Q songs.