California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.
I am 'too fiery'. . . yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.
I am convinced that we become what we do.
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope.