Its easy to be independent when youve got money. But to be independent when you havent got a thing — thats the Lords test. – Mahalia Jackson Category: Independence
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. – Demosthenes Category: Independence
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Independence
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. – Ernst Mayr Category: Friendship
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. – Bill Cosby Category: Love
Ive been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and Ive never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. – Georgia OKeeffe Category: inspirational
