The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

... we can know with confidence that God sees us. He hears us. He knows us and feels our pain. He loves us and He acts on our behalf.

Every man is defined by his deeds.

The body is an amazing system.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.

A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin

Kids will tease you for just about anything.

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

Now to what...? How we teach people to make choices and the things they're going to make choices over - that is culturally learned.