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I think 'Miracle's Boys' made more people aware of my work.
I wrote all the time, and I had teachers who encouraged it.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.
There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.
Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.
Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.
My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem.
Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.
It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.
A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.
Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.
I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
Turning to politicians is the worst way to solve a problem.
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
I'm definitely not in a band to convince anyone I can sing.
There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.
If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.
Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days
Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.