Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

True deliverers identify themselves with the sins of their people

A mind is not weighed by its magnitude, but by the dimensions of its thoughts.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It's not a silent majority, it's really a noisy majority.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.

Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality.