"There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win."

“A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.10

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”

Source : Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.”

“I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.”

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”

“The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.”

“The brightest star on a cloudless night Some kind of miracle, almost empty sky... Just as the bite of the blade wakes the absent mind There's time to dream and there's time to open your eyes”

“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”