Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

Kindness is the highest form of service to the humanity.

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success.

I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.

They said, “You are a savage and dangerous woman.” I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.

I think in my car somebody is playing with the pressure and the temperatures.