I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.

If haters hadn't made me angry and made me practice, I wouldn't have gotten this good.

If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

I always let other people describe me because if I describe myself you will not understand.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.

You should know the ins and outs [of the marriage]. So it was nice to see a little bit of background.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed!

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.