Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The exit is usually where the entrance was.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job." -Dagny Taggart

It is a strange thing to realize... but our failures so often place us where we need to be.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of the nation.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

Have the man at the station put the air in the tires. I did it once myself. Have you ever seen a car with a limp?