You've got to live life to the fullest. You just enjoy every beautiful thing there is to enjoy.

Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.

Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.

You worry too much about what goes into your mouth and not enough about what comes out of it.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

I'm still learning....learning from my great grandchildren and everyone around me. I would advise others to keep trying, stop and listen.

We still have a long way to go but if we work together and we work hard, you'll see black people in positions you never thought we'd be in. I thought I would never see a black President.

Treat me as I am, and that I shall remain.Treat me as I wish to be, and that I shall become.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

We will work with any Administration and with any President in whom the American people have placed their trust. That is, of course, if they wish to cooperate with Russia.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.