The art of dressing is the art we all practice

Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Hate is a self-destructive illness.

Only in America could a Don King happen.

To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

Conceit is a sure sign of insecurity; humility denotes awareness.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.