Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.
I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.
Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt.
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.
Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Tell the truth and not the facts.
I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I’m never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.
We have it in us to be splendid.
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.
Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.
I’m young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you.
Don’t let anybody raise you. You’ve been raised.
The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.
Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
I’m very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.