Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. – Steven Biko
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. – Agatha Christie
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements? – Robert Brault, “Sparsely Sage, Mostly Rosemary and Thyme,” rbrault.blogspot.com
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. – Charles Horton Cooley
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what Ive written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. – Joyce Maynard
About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. – John Woolman