All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

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.

No perspective, no perception.New perspective, new perception.

Life is full of choices.Your choice is your true freedom.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

Dry your tears, have no fears.

We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky.

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.