There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

You shouldn't be in here!

Do a bit research before you plan.

Rain just rains, it does nothing else. Wisdom just rains, it does nothing else! And those who get the rain get the miracles hidden inside the rain and create their own miracles!

If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.

We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.