Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body. It is better to allow good spirit.

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live

I really think I like poisonous snakes.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.

Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.