I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

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.

May the New Year bring you new grace, new gladness and new glory.

Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

I don't like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it's not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home.

We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.

I am a politician, but I am also a Christian.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.