Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!
Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.
I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.
Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marry.