“The good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.”

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

Don’t let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid’, the king explained, ‘I have decided to hedge my bets’.

Every time you claim, “I am this”, you just claimed another sense perception, thought, emotion, or feeling.

White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.

and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.

Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included.

Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community – as SNCC does – must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan