The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

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.

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

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.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

Those footprints in the snow led me to this wildfire.

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.

I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.