Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away.

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.

When life knocks you to your knees and it will why get up! If it knocks you to your knees again as it will well isn't that the best position from which to pray?

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.