Archives - February 2017

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game --- except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Even when you do not feel big hearted, you can give yourself permission to act that way.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Just let awareness have its way with you completely.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of history.

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

Don’t be afraid of the answers. Be afraid of not asking the questions.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.