1. “Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.”
2. “I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.”
3. “The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must be not true of tomorrow.”
4. “When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.”
5. “When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself.”
6. “Hold fast to dreams, for dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
7. “I have discovered in life there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
8. “A dream deferred is a dream denied.”
9. “Writing is like travelling. It’s wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.”
10. “To some people Love is given, to others only Heaven.”
11. “Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.”
12. “Life is a egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will brake.”
13. “Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
14. “The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep doing it and finally you finish it.”
15. “There is no color line in death.”
