The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.--

By chance we met, by choice we become friend

Performance releases pressure.

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on.

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites. (Eternity hangs from this moment.)

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.