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

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Religion is a major player in the poaching crisis. We've ignored it, we've accorded religion too much respect in this regard, and we've placed devotion above slaughter.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.

Fights take a long time to shoot.

... an institution cannot be run progressively on a basis of fear.

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.