Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

Never ask a woman about other men.Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place.

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

There are many pitfalls in life

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

My favorite place in the world is this store called My Sister's Closet in Arizona and it's the greatest secondhand shop in the world.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

If you are working with people with whom you do NOT do your best work, you are out of integrity.

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.