Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.

You never know what's going to happen in this world. I'll just keep my mouth shut. That's a good idea.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding