We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

Keep working even when no one is watching.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

Read between the lines and free your mind

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.