The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

Through our work and play, each of us eventually becomes a personification of what we cherish in life.

First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.

You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.