The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys