Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.

The greatest thing in all the world is loving. The second greatest in all the world is learning.

It's good to remember even during your darkest hour, you are not here to be punished.You are here to serve.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

God defend me from myself.

Be appreciative of what's right with your life. In your gratitude is power to make it even better

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.