Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!

I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead.

I feel like I envision a lot of hamstrings getting pulled and a lot of bumps and bruises out there.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark.

The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.