Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
-Benjamin Franklin
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
-Thomas Hardy
Life is like a book with three chapters. Two are already written by God - Birth and Death. The chapter in the middle is empty; fill it with your smile, love and faith.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
-Henry David Thoreau
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou