“We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.”

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Education is understanding relationships.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.

You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.

When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

My fantasy had always been making a music video and performing with music that I had created.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

I’ve spent a lot of time holding onto things and people that brought me misery because I was afraid of the void that may be there once I let go. I know now my voids were just as illusionary as the fear and insecurities that created them.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Getting so deep in the process of creating the life I want for myself, so I’m turning out anything/ anyone that doesn’t align with my vision.

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.