"To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god."

“My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.”

“The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered.”

“Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.”

“Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.”

“I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.”

“Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.7, University of Illinois Press

“I witness that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. He suffered and died for our sins and rose the third day. He is resurrected. In a future day, every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is the Christ. On that day, our concern will not be, 'Do others consider me Christian?' At that time, our eyes will be fixed on Him, and our souls will be riveted on the question, 'What thinks Christ of me?'”

“Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.”