“You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.”

I cannot go to bed tonight without a word to you.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Do one thing every day that scares you.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Effort: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you.

If you fail the first time then you’ll just have to try harder the second time.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Successful people speak words of inclusion rather than words of separation, words of acceptance rather than words of rejection, and words of tolerance rather than words of prejudice.

Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.

Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.