Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

Success only hurts the first time.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

Don King ain't a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don't hold any hard feelings toward him.

Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

Listen twice as much as you talk, since you were born with two ears and one mouth.

The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims he plays the game for exercise.

In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.