Kindness is more persuasive than force.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.