Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
The play's the thing.