One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

I know something better is on the road for me.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.