A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.

Practice until it becomes boring, then practice until it becomes beautiful.

I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by: Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.

Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival

Progress is impossible without change