I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, "Do not magnify the imperfections of others.

Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it

When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!

The power of God’s grace is a transformed life.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.

I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.