Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Your true potential is unlimited, and you can certainly achieve much more than human intelligence can comprehend.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Women, churchgoers, and conservative were more likely than men, nonchurch goers, and liberals to disagree with the reductionist (neural) account of human life.

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.