Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

All things are dark to sorrow.

It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

Life lessons build strength, and life is truly A Beautiful Struggle

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

Horrible dates are when you're with people who are immature and can't really be comfortable in their own skin.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean.