Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.

Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated

Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead.

The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.

Every time he touched her, the touch felt new, like something they had just invented together.

He was nobody, but a sweet liar!

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.