You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

I strongly believe that you can push beyond the challenges that you are currently faced with. Please try not to disappoint yourself.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom.

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.