They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

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.

Now mine eyes see the heart that once we did search for, and I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.

I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went into treatment where I said, 'I definitely need help.'

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

My mom says I have to be more positive, and I say life has to be more positive too or it's just not going to work.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie.