You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

The feeling of freedom is as precious as a fortune waiting to be told.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

Of course I love you. For real. I will sure come and personally meet you myself. Just to make sure you're well. When is your funeral?

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

I've been tired since I was 15.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Every child’s life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.