When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".

If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.

Social media is about people, not logos.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

I close my eyes and can see men drawing lines in the dust. America pushes through the membrane of mist and smoke, and I'm a small boy again in Bogalusa.