Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.

Do your best. And then let life do the rest.

There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife."

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress