We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms.

Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.

God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.

I’m like a cat. I swear I havenine lives

The end of this world occurs when you move from one world into another, from one reality into another.

Listen to the song of life.

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.

Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.

There have been innumerable films about film-making, but Otto e Mezzo was a film about the processes of thinking about making a film -- certainly the most enjoyable part of any cinema creation.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

The only way to earn what you're really worth is to get paid based on your results.

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.