No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
All men are liable to error; and most men are ... by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.
My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.
On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.
Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.