Quotes, random selection

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.