Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

I pressed and I prayed. It was only right that pressing went with prayer. That and being sorry. Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened.

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.

Begin each day with the hope of ending it with the bests of your steps. Plan the day ahead and ensure that the plans are worthy of ensuring your dreams are achieved. Get started.

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.

Continuous Improvement is the way which always heads towards the Perfection.

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat.

There will be beautiful times and tough times, as such is life, but if your heart is in it, then it is worth it all the way.

To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.

The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.