I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as music.

I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.

I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.