A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.

It is from your time that wealth is produced.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

Never under any circumstances permit anyone to belittle your self-worth.

Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love, Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is knownIf you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.