Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

I guess there are some things you never get used to.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.