"Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do."

"I’s wicked I is. I’s mighty wicked; anyhow I can’t help it."

"Liberty! -- Electric word!"

"The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest."

"All men are free and equal, in the grave,"

"Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good... what account have I to give for my long years?"

"It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter."

"Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man? What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?"

"That’s right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you’ll land."

"An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race."

"There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing"

"The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon."

"Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion."

"Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed"

"I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so."

"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."

"It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world, said Alfred."

"The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today"

"Thou canst say, who hast seen that same expression on the face dearest to thee;-that look indescribable, hopeless, unmistakable, that says to thee that thy beloved is no longer thine."

"Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?"

"But at midnight — strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin — then came the messenger."

"In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia."

"There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves when it comes to practice."

"George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal furniture is in no way suited to its general courses and currents."

"Being an indigenous talent of the African race;"

"She was one of those busy creatures, that can be no more contained in one place than a sunbeam or a summer breeze"

"Look at the high and the low, all the world over, and it's the same story,—the lower class used up, body, soul and spirit, for the good of the upper."

"Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can’t. It’s always safest, all round, to do as He bids us."

"Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession."

"There have been times when I have thought, if the whole country would sink, and hide all this injustice and misery from the light, I would willingly sink with it."

"No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence."

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."

"I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself."

"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy."

"Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted."

"I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in."

"I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons."

"I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor."

"The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth."

"I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it."

"We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population."

"You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow."

"Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature."

"I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like."

"I think 'Indiana Jones' was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life."

"Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice."

"My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious."

"The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life."

"Parenting is an impossible job at any age."

"It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time."