Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

Active evil is better than passive good

Listening with the focus of actually understanding what the other person is trying to communicate is priceless, a talent that everyone possesses but not something that is practiced enough.

The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.