There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

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.

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

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.

Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.

Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

You can be an atheist three seasons out of the year, but not during spring. Spring makes it mandatory to believe in a Divine Creator.

Life is ever since man was born licking honey from a thorn.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.