I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

You don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body, just the same, don't blame others for the shape of your experience.

I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

Every government is always growing corrupt.