I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

Oh.My. Every illegal swear word in the dictionary, God. What is it with older men? don't they ever look in the mirror?

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

You might be a redneck if Santa Claus refuses to let your kids sit in his lap.

Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.