All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don’t --Alvin Ailey

For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.

People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances.

Treat objections as requests for further information.

Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'

Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.

The more honest you are, the more quieted you are within.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

I'm sad for adults who want to be children. And children who want to be adults.