Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.

Dark is the world’s night without you my love,

He pulls me into the steel of his chest. In between kissing me, he whispers, “You don’t have to be jealous of them, you know. None of them hold a candle to you.

Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

Climate change is a reality.

It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys." "Just most waking hours?