One of the problems we have as writers is we don’t take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn’t come, good, I’ll just sit here.
You’re not serious; you’re boring as hell.
The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.
You don’t have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
A leader sees greatness in other people. He or she can’t be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
I know why the caged bird sings.
Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.
On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.
Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you’re gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.
Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.
On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.
We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.
Freedom is never free.
My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.
A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.