The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.
I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.
Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child. . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship
Education can change the scope of an entire family
There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.
When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.
Never mistake motion for progress.