If your library is not "unsafe, " it probably isn't doing its job.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

Will therapy make you feel any better? Not if it's working.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

You can swim (uncomfortably) in water at a temperature slightly above freezing; a tiny drop in temperature-or a miracle-allows you to walk on water.

Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?