Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.

Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.

Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.

No matter the situation, never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

Maturity comes with experience, not age.

I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.

People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.

Embrace the sweetness of life like a gift honeycomb from the hive.

People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

I haven't promised anything for the future. Instead, I have said what I would have done differently in the past.

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.