"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."

"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."

"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."

"While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."