We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.

The higher our consciousness the less we are affected by our environment, including race consciousness.

My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it