The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

A star for every State, and a State for every star.

Your Life Doesn’t Need A Happily-Ever-After To Be A Damn Good Story

Replace your old books with the book you've always wanted to write.

And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire.

I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

I don't like hassles. But I love Christmas because it reminds us how "God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God" (Rom. 8:28 NLT).

Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.