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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
My dad was one who - he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.
My father really set the tone for us to be a more moral nation, to take a moral high ground in everything that we do.
The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.
I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
Now that Hillary Clinton is officially running for President I am officially not going to vote for her. It's official.
Until you prevail with God, you cannot prevail with men; your victory has to be spiritual first, before it is physical.
The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!
The Bible says, "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost"
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
Cultivate your sense of humour. On life's journey from nappy rash to denture adhesive, humour is a great pain reliever.
Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.
I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.
I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
In the end, I still have the same hope as my father - that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.
You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.
Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
My mother made countless sacrifices so that her children - and all children - could grow up in a better nation and world.
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.