As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.