And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were still in slavery was a gift so great that it is now almost the only reason many foreigners still like us at least a little bit. Th...
Imagine yourself near the end of your life. You are relaxing in a rocking chair reflecting on the decision you presently want to make. As the older, wiser you thinks about the outcome of your choice, ask yourself three simple questions. 1. Did it cau...
If I imagine my soul, as I do when I pray, it's shaped like Stapafel. No change of place or religion can alter that. I lived beneath Stapafel from the hour I was born until I was sixteen. I've never seen it since, but that doesn't matter. My soul is ...
They are of the dream time. I don't understand it, I can't say it in words. Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes. . . .But when the mind becomes conscious, when th...
There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.
Michael had learned the hard way that nothing good came from interfering in the affairs of the afterlife.
Obsession is hard work and can only be performed at full speed for short periods of time.
Hope may have a positive reputation, but it has a vicious downside. If you have hope, you can be crushed.
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge.
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?
The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.
I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.
I have two problems with hard labor: hard and labor. I prefer soft, and I’d prefer not giving birth.
