I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.
Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
I think [Donald Trump] s got the votes for [tax reform]. I think he's definitely has the Republican votes for it, in House and Senate, and I think he probably has maybe 20 percent of the Democratic vote for it. So he could get it done with a bipartisan majority.
Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.