Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.

It really doesn't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has the nerve to do, man has not to nerve to hear.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

A woman's health is her capital.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.