If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

J. C. Watts

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Fred Woodworth

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Major Taylor

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

William Morris

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

Bill Cosby

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Johann von Goethe

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it -- the speed of his acceptance.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

The thing I fear most is fear.

Michel de Montaigne

Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.

Proverb

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.

David Sedaris