the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

To grow—overcome and go beyond your barrier.

Elegance is refusal.

If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.

We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

I feel like it's okay for us to grow up because a lot of us want to get rich and die young.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow, you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.