Genealogical trees do not flourish among slaves. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 1855
Love is just a contact of no refusal.
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...
I want to put a ding in the universe.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
Sow good seeds for a good yield.