Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

If you are going to be a doubter, I don't need your negative energy.

All you need to build a house, Is blood and bricks and plaster.

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

By the time we get to church, I need church cuz I've been yelled at by everyone in the family.

Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.

The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.

There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

Anytime I think about a product, I think about my family and friends. Would they be proud of me if I put this out?

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.