Mark Twain said all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy,...
They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tea...
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.