The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Nothing is black or white.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.