... anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it.