In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

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.

I have taught you my dear flock for above thirty years how to live and I will show you in a very short time how to die.

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

When I'm all alone, nobody else can say goodbye.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.

You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple.