Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

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.

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.

Memory shimmers as a crystal lakethat reflects all things invisible.

A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher.

God made all pleasures innocent.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Do not enforce the tired wolf Dragging his infected wound homeward To sit tonight with the warm children Naming the pretty kings of France.

As long as you tithe you cannot be greedy or needy.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

You want to do what you can while you are on this earth. Otherwise, the alternative is to go shopping.

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.