I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.