Perseverance is my motto.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

IT'S PRETTY HARD for the Lord TO GUIDE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

I got my start by giving myself a start.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.

One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.

I believe in love that's fun, that is caring, giving, and that is honest.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

Take an hour every day at dawn and give it to your Self. Meet your Self there, in the holy moment. Then go about your day. You will be a different person.

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

The next step is the path you're on.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.