For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.

You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.

If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go.

Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

One thing that makes aikido is so powerful, it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight.

Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.

Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist!