Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Only the rich are lonesome.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

Being blinded in love and friendship is a common mistake.

Keep seeking the spirituality of thy soul.

Begin each new day with your knees bow in prayer.

Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!

out of the frying pan and into the fire

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.

The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.