“Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.”

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Never be afraid of the moments–thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.

Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

We live in the world when we love it.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.