I have just enough public appreciation to make me happy.
If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. . . there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart. . . I'll always be with you.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.
Segregation. . . not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually. . . It scars the soul. . . It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than. . . ''You are not equal to. . . '
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.