You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

Hotel Conundrum: The continental breakfast. What is it that makes continents so shitty at providing an adequate breakfast?

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Adorn yourself with modest dressing.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people.

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Those who do not have faith in others will not be able to stand on their own.