We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.

August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

You can define everything as being political and analyze it politically.

As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.