If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.