I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

No matter how cold your proverbial winter, you can plant seeds of change in your life by changing your thoughts and actions.

Be very careful of the words that come out of your mouth, if you wish to save yourself from a lifetime of regrets.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things