I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Charles Dickens

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Napoleon Hill

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

David Wilkerson

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

Jeremy Collier

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Lord Chesterfield

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Sallust

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.

Frank A. Clark

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

James Thurber