Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune. . . has already brought him acquittal!
It's all success if it's what you need.
When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other
In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful.
There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect. . . Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.
Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are
You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.
I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.