The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
I never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing. ' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.
It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.
Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.