To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy..

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution..

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive i….

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery..

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship t….

You shall be held down by the chains of your own judgment..

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve..

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be..

One may not reach the dawn save by path of night..

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity].

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball..

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder..

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide..

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward..

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved..

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable..

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze up….

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully..

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would….

Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to mak….

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit..