Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

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.

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

College isn't half as much fun as they told us it was going to be.""It's not one-hundredth as much fun.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Beauty and sadness always go together.

I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.