Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.
What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?
There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.
It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.
Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings.
True kindness ennobles the giver
There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.
I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.