...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

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.

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!

I don't care if you fall off your broom as long as you catch the Snitch first.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark.

With my brains and your looks, we could go places.

Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?