A true woman always loves a real soldier.

If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

I only wanted to help my people.

As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

The dead never truly die. They simply change form.

Start slow, then taper off

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.

What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real

One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.