O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.

People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.