I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass

My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

I used to have a military officer travelling with me at all times with a suitcase - referred to as the nuclear football - in case it had to be used.

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.