The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

I think I am a pretty good sister.

I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better.

A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.

We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.