I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

I've played everything but a harp.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'Emma Darwin to husband Charles

One look at the stranger staring back re-convinced me that I had to be dreaming. It was me, but at the same time completely not me.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside

It will not do to depend on the mind alone.

Christ is the Son of God. He died to atone for men's sin, and after three days rose again. This is the most important fact in the universe. I die believing in Christ.