Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.