If individuals have no virtues their vices may be of use to us.

I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Few can claim a single angel who guards them. But you can.

I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother Edward came along we both became comics, making each other laugh.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.

In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself