Take the time to understand your audience's concerns.

We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is. Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.

Poor little creatures! she said. What can a person's heart be made of that can pity a Christian's child and yet can't pity a devil's child, that a thousand times more needs it!

They require that the author shall make the reader feel a deep interest in the personages of his tale and in their fate; and that he shall make the reader love the good people in the tale and hate the bad ones. But the reader of the Deerslayer tale dislikes the good people in it, is indifferent to the others, and wishes they would all get drowned together.

There is no way of accounting for people. You have to take them as they are.