Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.

You can't lie a lifetime, son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you

Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Make a list of things you like doing and then do them

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

No matter how strong the storm, how hard the rain and how vicious the wind there is always a gap in the clouds for the light to shine through

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

Nonetheless, it moves.

Nature distributes her favors unequally.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?