Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

Each sunrise brings a new day filled with new hopes for a new beginning.

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

Imagine about anything instead of assume about it.

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.

It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to...the Word of God.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.