A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...

Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.

I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.