It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.

Being happy is more important than anything else.

Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others.

Paradise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.

I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.