Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

The flesh is at the heart of the world.

The Holy Spirit can rejuvenate a tired Christian, captivate an indifferent believer, and empower a dry church.

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.