To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Work for your own soul's sake.

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.