A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.
Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they’re not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them.
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche – originality loses its authenticity in one’s efforts to obtain originality.
You can see real attitude of man when he’s terrified.
Winners use words that say ‘must’ and ‘will’.
Suffering is a part of real life lesson.
Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.
Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.
A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty.
DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
Dogs are animals that poop in public and you’re supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you’ve got to ask yourself, “Who’s the real master in this relationship?”