Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself.

You want me to lie for you?" Aidan asked, watching

I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.