"No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it."

“If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.”

Source : 'Answer to Marlow'

“A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.”

“If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.”

“The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.”

Source : Samuel Gompers (1990). “The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90”, p.313, University of Illinois Press

“People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.”

“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.”

Source : "James Baldwin: My Uncle and His Love Life" by T. Better Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2014.

“When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.”

“What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.”

Source : J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.3119, Thomas Nelson Inc