I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

Only the rich are lonesome.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity.

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line.

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.

Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window.