If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

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.

you will never catch up.Walk around feeling like a leafknow you could tumble at any second.Then decide what to do with your time.--The Art of Disappearing

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Know that when you praise and worship God and appreciate fully all that He is, you open up a channel through which more of His love pours into your heart.

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

When the heart has been wounded, it forms scar tissue that acts as an armor around it, which in turn gives it courage to love again.

I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

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

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.