It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Truth searches for no one. It waits to be found.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.

Crushing defeat for Great Britain #Euref. History will show no one won today.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'