„Du hast das getan, was Du konntest. Als Du es besser konntest, hast Du es besser gemacht.“
„Die Menschen vergessen, was du sagst und was du tust. Aber wie sie sich in deiner Gegenwart gefühlt haben, vergessen sie nie.“
„Kreativität kann man nicht aufbrauchen, je mehr man sich ihrer bedient, desto mehr wächst sie.“
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.
