O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

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.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be.