"Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind.”

“No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.”

“Genius is intellect constructive.”

“It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.”

“The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits”

“The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.”

“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.”

“More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.”

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”