You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.
She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
This is not the time to shrink back in fear. Move forward in faith. Get up every morning knowing you are gifted.
The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with its surroundings. . . and there is no trouble. This is what we mean by naturalness.
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.
All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.