The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

Divinity dwells in thee. To activate the power, you must connect with the spirit daily.

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

Reaganomics, that makes sense to me. It means if you don't have enough money, it's just because poor people are hoarding it.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.