I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

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.

There might be a million wrong people in your life, but when the right one comes everything looks dark.

Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!

Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.