When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

If you network you need to network with people who can help you.

Faith in God gives us joy. It is a certainty of His glorious blessings.

All seasons are beautifully filled with splendid wonders.

How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men.

No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.