Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.

The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

The trouble with insanity is it can flare up at the most inconvenient moments.

Further to this, Ove has the cat's resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him.

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

The Bible, I've said it before, is a beautifully written work of fiction.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.