was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing!

You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.

I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

I support the world and love everybody. It's about spreading love and breaking down barriers, not building up hate.

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.