Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

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.

Do not be overcome by hate. But conquer hate with love.

To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.

Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.

It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.

The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.

I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.