The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

Malthus married in 1804 and beat three children with his wife

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.

But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.

Our role as parents is to do all we can to create an atmosphere where our children can feel the influence of the Spirit and then help them recognize what they are feeling.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

What I did was permitted. My emails went to state.gov accounts. I did what I did, and I've said that it was a mistake. I've tried to do the best I could to get that information out to people.

I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'

There is only one reality. That reality is God. The soul of man must contact God, and unless the spirit of man is truly joined to God, there is no such thing as real Christian manifestation.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.