What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

The most and best of us depend on others

You're elegance in a misunderstood form. Crystal quartz in a world of platinum. Oh, my dizzy boy, there's a fire in you that I use to warm my hands on chilly mornings.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

Most haystacks do not even have a needle.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.