The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live out what little life remains to them.

Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

Keep on smiling, treat people with respect, be cool even if some may not treat you the same. How people treat you doesn't change who you're.

I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.

I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

People who think and say we more often than I are a lot more likely to succeed.

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

'Keep England White' is a good slogan.