Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

If you look within your heart, I am here, and you are free.

The size of your audience is more important than the size of your book

If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.

you never forget your first fall.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.

Eternal vigilance is the price of sexual confidence.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

Left behind as a memory for us. [Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]

If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.