In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here. ' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.
The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
It's the way you look whenever she mentions her fiance. My cat looks like that before he hacks up a hairball.
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.