It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

It is often said that things must get worse before they can get better, and there is truth in that.

Truth never dies but lives a wretched life.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

Success is about making your life a special version of unique that fits who you are - not what other people want you to be.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.