At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

Every person may not be great, but there is some greatness in every person.

Think with your whole body.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.

I don't believe in miracles. I believe in character

When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities.

It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities.

Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.