And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Don’t be afraid. Fear limits YOU and YOUR VISION.

May you find infinite hope in the Lord.

When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

We are most artistically caged.