Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

The Devil's boots don't creak.

Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour.

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.