Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

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.

People can hate you or curse you, but if you love, then nothing can touch you.

MISUNDERSTANDING" arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Sometimes directors feel like they have to justify that hat that they are wearing they've got on as a director, and they come in and they tweak and interfere.

I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

There are no degrees of honesty.