Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

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.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

I've grown tired of resting on my laurels and have decided to start resting on my failures.

It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed.

Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.