Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

E. W. Howe

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, (wide

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory.. For without that you cannot be born again.

George Bernard Shaw

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

Philip Sidney

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Thomas Hood

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

Sai Baba

I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

Lance Bass

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Paulo Coelho

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin