Black Oak's Daughter

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, “I’ll try again tomorrow.”
—Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. -Benjamin Franklin

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Presence is more than just being there.
- Malcolm Forbes

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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal.  I had an ambition to Build.   -John D. Rockefeller

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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one’s own unnecessary vegetation.   – Gail Sheehy

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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
-Stephen R. Covey

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I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing
-Pearl Bailey

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It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman’s toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

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I am an artist…What that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, “I know all about it. I’ve already found it it.” As far as I’m concerned, it means, “I am looking. I am hunting for it, I am deeply involved.”

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