Thank Fate for foes! I hold mine dear As valued friends. He cannot know The zest of life who runneth here His earthly race without a foe.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

There is nothing we cannot live down, and rise above, and overcome.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

To worry is to wear yourself out.

Rich or poor, living in a trusting society simply makes people happier.

I'm from New York and I love New York and I'm always repping New York, but what I represent is something deeper than just being a New York rapper.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious.

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.