I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.