Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of your spirit. There are infinite possibilities.

We all wish to live every moment of our life but its the death who gives us a surprise.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

My set comes with a smaller fin in the back, i find this helps me release off the top a lot easier