If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

The workshop of character is everyday life.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

I just know who I am and what's comfortable for me and I don't personally do things in life because others do it or because that's what society tells me I should do.

What we do as an individual affects the whole world.