God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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.

She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.

A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing.

We live thinking we will never die, We die thinking we have never lived

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

Sometimes the best kaizen is no kaizen at all.

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.