Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done, ' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

One of my friends at the Compound has a photographic memory. Everything she ever sees, reads, or hears, she remembers forever in perfect detail.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

We usually understand freedom as meaning that there are many choices - but does having more choices, or believing we do, actually make us more free?

Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.

I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.

As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.