My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead..

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thi….

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good..

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil..

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who hav….

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected e….

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil..

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it..

The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly pr….

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age..

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way..

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others..

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't c….

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can..

I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people do….

That was like the best start I could've had, the best way I could've started in the music scene. I owe [Jack Johnson] a lot for the beginning of my c….

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social just….

My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untrut….

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things..

'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be desc….

I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us..