I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.
There is nothing so intractable as a calendar.
But truth, that dangerous commodity, has a way of sticking.
Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society, it confers a benefit.
There is nothing more tedious than a constant round of gaiety.
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.
Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.
My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.
If you have good wealth mentality. . . . you will generate wealth wherever you go. Even if you lose money temporarily, your wealth mentality will attract it again. If you have a lack mentality, no matter how much you receive or what financial opportunities come your way, wealth will evade you or, if it comes, it won't last.