Your little child is the only true democrat.

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.

Silent words are heard through eyes.

And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?

It used to be said "Build it and they will come, " now it is "Build it and bribe them in".

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

Sigur Ros make beautiful music. Bloc Party are fantastic and exciting and innovative.