They who laugh the hardest are the same ones who have fought the toughest.The winner, though fraught with scarsstands alone, wholly victorious.

ON LIVING LIFE WISELY - To make the right choices, you have to be at peace with yourself.

Sometimes, all you need is someone who will listen. It is fortune enough to have people around who hear you & not judge you.

LIFE’S SOFT EDGES‘Tis a truth I will confess that we ofttimes find soft edges –to such a degree, our livesare well manifestof people’s kindliness.

Every person is an entrance to another world.

HIDEAWAYPreserve thatsecret, homey spotin your heart, as sanctuary where dreams may be softly tended, and revived.

Come discover how astonishingit is to unravel your own blossoming.

The world is abounding with beauty. You are a demonstration of this.

Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.

INDIVIDUALITYI will never cease to talk in riddles, I will never try to feel different.I may be unusual for them, but that’s alright with me.

MORNINGTIDEThe wonderful works of morningtidebring the sight of luminous whiteness, a breathing whimsyamong wind-tossed sprigs of green.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

If you have time-release pills, you could have time-release expanding cheesecakes.

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

Music is not just my passion it's my companion.