Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

Satellite in my eyes Like a diamond in the sky How I wonder Satellite strung from the moon And the world your balloon Peeping Tom for the mother station

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

There are limits put on women, but why should there be?

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

So when someone, a veteran stands up and say, "Here are the facts on the VA." He [Donald Trump] says, "No, your facts are wrong." Turns out her facts are right and his facts are wrong.

They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.