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

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.

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.

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

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.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!

Everything is still falling apart.

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.