My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
I wouldn't mind paying taxes. . . if I knew they were going to a friendly country
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.
I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.
The confusion and undesigned inaccuracy so often to be observed in conversation, especially in that of uneducated persons, proves that truth needs to be cultivated as a talent, as well as recommended as a virtue.
You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.
A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.