Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.
I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.
Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries. . .
Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?
Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.
This house protected by an armed citizen. There is absolutely nothing here worth dying for.
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.