By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

I want you. But I’m scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I've always been someone who always says things out loud.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

If I can not dance, I shall die!

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

I'm always thinking ahead, and I'm always curious about what's happening next. I thrive on that kind of thinking, so I don't burn out.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.