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.

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.

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

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.

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego

Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

The music of lovers is not generally appreciated by lovers of music.

Men are vile inconstant toads.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes