There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

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.

Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

The most important relationship is the mind's relationship with itself. In other words, the ultimate - and, really, the only - relationship you have is the relationship with your own thoughts.

Real frontier-busting math explores new worlds . . . . If you can communicate that experience, somewhere between math and uncertainty, life experience provides the balance.

Donald Trump came out as a birther, which is Republican for, 'I'm running for president.'

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.

I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.