The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.