My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.