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.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

You are only as limited as your beliefs.

There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

I don't want Him to return and find me sitting in a theater.

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

I believe that you understand a church only when you kneel in it.

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.