When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly.

Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

Don't be afraid to express to the world about how you feel... Ask Donald Trump.

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

APPLY WITHINYou once told meYou wanted to findYourself in the world -And I told you toFirst apply within,To discover the worldwithin you.You once told meYou wanted to saveThe world from all its wars -...

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.

Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.