If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
No one should be twice punished for one crime.
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Delay not to seize the hour!
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing, So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
Success has ruined many a man.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Acquaintance, n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.