Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways. [Fr. , Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres, Ne lui font changer de manieres. ]
Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.
The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.
Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
Can't you. . . I don't. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby.
I've never treated anyone in my band like they're not on the same level as me. I'm not that kind of person. In the past, I have disrespected people in my band and that was my weakness. I think some people have a hard time understanding how I think.
You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.