Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

If you want to see God move make a move.

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.