What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

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.

there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.

A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.

Nothing's faster than the Internet.

Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.

When the personality comes to serve the energy of the soul that is authentic empowerment.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

Unfounded hate only multiplies quarrels.

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.