The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Love truth, but pardon error.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.