For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Man cannot live by profit alone.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.