We shall not always plant while others reap

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

We were not made to eternally weep.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

She accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army.""Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army.""That's SO not the point!

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself. Spend your time, money, and energy on improving your life and self.

The end of the world came and my job did not change.

Let us be guardians, not gardeners

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.

Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.