I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Industry need not wish.

Benjamin Franklin

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Major Taylor

Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters.

Steve Maraboli

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

E. M. Cioran

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

Nancy Meyers

It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.

Jean Paul Sartre

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

Katherine Paterson

History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see, and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through to avoid.

Livy

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Jodi Picoult