“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”

Comparisons are odious.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

Many littles make a much.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Where there’s music there can be no evil.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I’ll tell thee what thou art.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Where one door shuts another opens.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

what the sky is to a bird is like a dream for a dreamer.

You could have left me in the jungle. I would have survived and mastered bird language. Adaptability is my secret weapon.

And all these strange birds in the morning sky feel more familiar than home.

When I think of things that fade from reach I see birds and balloons, life and love, me and you.

The company you keep has a large influence on the situations you bring to yourself. Birds of a feather flock together.

Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah, they’re birds now.

Sad birds still sing.

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.