Aim high, hit high.

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health.

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

In the twilight of the morning, all life silently waits for the sunrise. Sun must rise for the darkness to sink!