I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Grief is itself a medicine.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

In darkness, don’t cry, wait for the star to appear.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell!

I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.