Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

There’s a special place in hell for men who convince women their intuition is insecurity to protect their duplicity.

Boss up on your emotions before you become a slave to them.

Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon.

We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women.

And I think THAT'S what we need to be pursuing with our lives: learning to be more skillful at coping with our minds.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.