If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

How strongly you believe you really can will play the biggest part in determining if you actually will.

f you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love

Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.

Chess is not for the timid.

Nuance doesn't get retweeted.

Confidence is key, if you don't have it, fake it!

Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.

In God, I move and breathe and have my being.

I'm nervous... but I'm not going to fear what I'm about to do, I'm going to take it head on and I'm going to conquer it.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest