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Mark's Favorite Quotes

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life;
love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
--- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin

Work and play are words used to describe the same
thing under differing conditions.
--- Mark Twain

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure
without losing your enthusiasm.
--- Winston Churchill

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before
which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
--- John Quincy Adams

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow,
the past, the neglected opportunity.
--- Omar Idn Al-Halif

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
--- Robert Louis Stevenson

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
--- Harper Lee

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me.
Brotherhood is a two-way street.
--Malcom X

A great civilization is not conquered from without until
it has destroyed itself from within.
---Ariel Durant

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
---Willa Cather

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
--- Leo Tolstoy

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.
--- Chinese proverb

Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
--- Albert Camus

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
--- Marian Anderson

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
--- Aesop

The love of liberty is the love of others;
the love of power is the love of ourselves.
--- William Hazlitt

Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers.
---Grossman's Law

'To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws,
to be led by permanent ideals -
that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him,
and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him."
-- Honore De Balzac

"Joy is a net of love that captures souls."
-- Mother Teresa

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
-- Mark Twain

Love is the only freedom in the world because it
so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the
phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.

-- William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure"

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

-- George Eliot

You give but a little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of your heart that you truly give.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

-- Cicero

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial;
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best

-- P.J. Bailey, Festus

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

-- John Quincy Adams

I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hates
so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone,
that they will be forced to deal with the pain.

--James Baldwin, 1955

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

-- Goethe

"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool
or you go out in the ocean."

-- Christopher Reeve

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.: -- G. K. Chesterton

Books

Kaffir Boy
Kaffir Boy Page
Back Cover
Preface
Chapter One

KB in America
KB in A Page
Back Cover
Chapter One

Love in B&W
Love in B&W
Dust Jacket
Reader Reviews
Preface
Mark's View
Gail's View

African Women
AW Home
Back Cover
Reader Reviews
Preface
Chapter One

Ubuntu (Novel)
Ubuntu Page
Dust Jacket
Chapter One

Miriam's Song
Miriam's Page
Dust Jacket
Dedication
Preface
First Chapter
Reader Reviews