A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.

If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.

I experienced racism in different settings: I was followed in stores, in cars. The way you experience racism depends on how you deal with it. My memories of Goodeve are good ones.

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.