A.Z. Black Quotes

Failure is the new success.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Life could begin all over again if you were lucky enough, and I had decided to be lucky.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.

When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.

Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t let you out.

Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.

She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.

Ingo was a fever, and so far she hadn't found the antidote.

There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.

You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.

Three of them, dressed in silvery gray, on three horses—one black, one white, and the third red.

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

I'm not a big birthday guy I never have been.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

Trust in yourself.

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.