"She,
In the dark,
Found light
Brighter than many seen.

She, 
within herself,
found loveliness,
through the soul's own mastery.

Now the world receives
from her dower: 
the message of the strength
on inner power." ~ Langston Hughes   

""Hope" the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.

And sweetestin the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird, 
That kept so many warm

Iv'e heard it in the chilliest of lands
And on the strangest of seas;
Yet never in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me"~ Emily Dickenson

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."~Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."~ Mark Twain