If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

We will persevere, come life or death.

I don’t mind losing in this game of love, if it means You will be the winner.

Keep your spirits up, for the demons are scared of salvation.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.

Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime?

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort of the rock star of his time.

We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.