Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Free verse is like free love

Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.

Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.