I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
We are free to yield to truth.
Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of...
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Sad people dislike the happy and the happy the sad the quick thinking the...
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest as always been conceded to...
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork yet she'll be constantly running...
Money is a handmaiden if thou knowest how to use it a mistress if thou...
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of...
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise...
Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever...
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried...
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience which is the...
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Pale death with impartial step knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers...
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run...
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
It is courage courage courage that raises the blood of life to crimson...
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes and in good times...
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
It is no great art to say something briefly when like Tacitus one has...
A picture is a poem without words.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone what their temper...
Anger is a short madness.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
