Friendliness famous quotes

When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution,

You always learn from your mistakes.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

I'm pretty competitive. I talk a big game - even when I'm going to lose.

You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.