Shaking the past, making my break, taking control, that's what it takes.
Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Always maintain good relations with your public.
I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.
Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.
A dog is grateful for what is, which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.