Rosa Parks

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

To know fulfillment, nourish what is for the belly and not the eye.

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

Hurricanes are named after people, baby, and I hope you know that falling in love with me will be so much more treacherous than boarding up the windows and waiting for me to pass.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.