Your tragedy is God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful.
Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.
. . . rapid motion through space elates one.