In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The earth is always changing...readjusting to our existence. Each era is full of unique challenges

Service is not something you do. It is something you are.

Every storm has a beginning, every storm has a perfect moment of bliss and every storm has a destructive end.

The only person to blame for your situation is you.

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.