I don’t write letters anymore.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.
No, I’m not anguished and tormented.
We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
Invention is the mother of necessity.
If you genuinely want something, dont wait for it teach yourself to be impatient.
The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.
I never wanted this kind of life that I’m still living.
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
I know the sun rises in the eat and sets in the west, that I am ten fingers and ten toes and ten thousand reasons short of explaining what it is I can’t explain to you. And I know that I will always love you in certainties.
People are used to being coddled.
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
