Forgive yourself - no one else will.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.