When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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.
We didn't make money but we never lost money. We'd sit around Times Square with fliers, walk around the Village and try and get people to come. Now you'd just tweet it, but that was the beginning of emails, or the beginning of me doing emails - I'm sure there were people in 1986 who were doing emails.
Don't be afraid to show emotion. Get excited, get angry, get motivated, laugh, cry, yell, and vent. You will feel so much better after a great release.
A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference