Archived Quotes

Everyone should be respected as an individual,

but no one idolized.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know

how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

We were born to die

and we die to live.

As seedlings of God,

we barely blossom on earth;

we fully flower in heaven.

If you light a lamp for someone else,

it will also brighten your path.

Smile in the mirror Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Find a place

Inside where there's joy,

And the joy will

Burn out the pain.

Vegetables are

a must on a diet.

I suggest carrot cake,

zucchini bread,

and pumpkin pie

Knowing is not enough;

we must apply.

Willing is not enough;

we must do.

I had felt for a long time that,

if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,

that I would refuse to do so.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow storm.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

Sometimes if you’re lucky,

someone comes into your life

who’ll take up a place in your heart that no one else can fill.

Man is born free,

and everywhere he is in chains.

I believe in being an innovator,

not an imitator.

No man is good enough to govern another man

without the other's consent.

Why do you all push us around?

Z Alphabet and Letter in Red

Friendship is not something

you learn in school.

But if you haven't learned

the meaning of friendship,

you really haven't

learned anything.

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

and has time enough.

I don't have a therapist,

so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

You have to have a certain amount of

arrogance to be a performer.