-
“Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.”
-
“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”
-
“It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.”
-
“Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.”
Source : Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013 
-
“Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.”
-
“Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway.”
-
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”
Source : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY
-
“The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.”
Source : James Hogg (1866). “The works of the Ettrick shepherd”, p.430
