Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.

Even though I am in the sneaker world, I am very diverse.

In any moment, in any circumstance, a miracle will occur when we align ourselves with truth.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?