Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Little Pessimism in life reminds of staying alive and not wandering in a fairy land.

All men die in solitude

Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.

One possible reason that I don't believe in fate is that I wasn't fated to.

If you can't draw a crowd, draw dicks on the wall

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there.

History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.