Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Understanding who you are within creates invisible changes in a man’s character

A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention she gets.

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.

People are free to do whatever they want to do.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.