Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual

Failures are part of life lessons.Keep trying no matter how many times you fail. You will one day succeed.

I don’t know how long we’ve sat here. All I do know is that my heart feels torn in two. Have I been here hours? Or minutes? Heartbreak is timeless".

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

One person really can make a difference.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.