“Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.”

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

There is no such thing as great writing – there is only great re-writing!

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Look at things and listen and feel.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Every day above earth is a good day.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop–you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!