I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ― Booker T. Washington

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Loneliness feels like prison.

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The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

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Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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It feels like the mornings clap their hands. To make me wake. ― Markus Zusak

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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ― Dr. Seuss

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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy. ― Booker T. Washington

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I’d far rather be happy than right any day. – Douglas Adams

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