All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

If you have answered God’s call and made the decision to fulfill your calling, then the devil will try to destroy you

You have to be a great lover to be a beloved.

Money said, "I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.