A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Age considers; youth ventures.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. 12