The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

I'm really a romantic at heart.

Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.

Fundamentally women and men are different.

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

Most haystacks do not even have a needle.

If I'm not creating, I'm not as happy.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.