We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.

Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.

All love is sweet, given or received.

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

I'm incredibly happy, I'm incredibly lucky.