There are no superior or inferior races. No one is intrinsically inferior or superior. All have the same value as creatures of god. Those who put others down simply want to exploit them.

A humble heart, a friendly look, a smile on the face is really what you need to break the ice, not a very big axe.

The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you

Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives

Some beliefs are so strongly held that some believers are ready to lose their heads rather than the belief they carry therein

When something looks impossible, don’t give up without testing its impossibility

As you fight any war, sometimes the result may be defeat. Learn to be heroic even in your defeats.

You will always find all the time you need in the world to do what you love. If you can’t find the time, it’s not important for you

An evil woman sends her husband away and wails her evil fate

By your behavior you send signals on how people should treat you

Keep calm and live

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people perceive you differently.

Life without decency is unbearable.

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.

Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.