It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Love is a state of being.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.