And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Often the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Books are like our children. They are often conceived by inspiration, but are born only by labor.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

What are you going to do if it's the end of the world? You better go out having fun instead of stressing about it.

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

Songs, stories are beyond value; they are the memory and wisdom of a people, the particular individual rivers of the sea of life which constitutes us all.

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us, can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.