If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

Do I Stank or was it already Stanky in Here?

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.