The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that!

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

If you can just learn to think about the market first, you will have a big leg up on most people starting startups.