Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Find your reason and hold it tight.

The time to be judgmental was past on the cross of Jesus Christ, try to have God's heart of mercy and grace which will leads to salvation.

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

Abe glanced at Rose. "You see that?" he said. "Now that's devotion." She rolled her eyes at him.