What difference is there in the color of the soul?

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

Is everything right because the law allows it?

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

Let me be clear. I applaud self love. I appreciate self value. But if you're not capable of loving another person just as much... you will never experience true love.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.

Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.

I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

When the water is very calm and very beautiful, it won't take a long time that a thick head will throw a stone in it!

Most criminologists today will acknowledge that crime rates and incarceration rates in the United States have had relatively little to do with each other.

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.