He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop.

It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

You may explore, you may evaluate but you can't execute if you are not willing to take action. Decide to take off now!

You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.

We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.

I’m sorry that I don’t like your tattoos.”I walked away. I walked back to him. “I mean that I don’t like tattoos, not just your tattoos. I like your skin, though.”I walked away.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology.

Dancers don’t think about things; they just do them.

Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.