Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
It’s good to have to put yourself in someone else’s skin. It’s all-consuming.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
There was a while when I was feeling like, ‘Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this’.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times… before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
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