God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.