To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.
A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.
The sleepy like to make excuses.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
I have butterflies in my stomach.
I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.