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What is luck?...

What is luck?...

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking...

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Be careful: they...

Be careful: they...

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

Source: A Warsaw Diary, in Granta,...

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Life is truly...

Life is truly...

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to...

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Perhaps middle-age is,...

Perhaps middle-age is,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material...

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He who devotes...

He who devotes...

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at...

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Worship your heroes...

Worship your heroes...

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Letters are largely...

Letters are largely...

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

Source: In Quotable...

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There are few...

There are few...

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems demonstrably...

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If we practiced...

If we practiced...

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in...

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They are a...

They are a...

They are a curious mixture of Spanish tradition, American imitation, and insular limitation. This explains why they...

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W E B Du Bois: But what of...

W E B Du Bois: But what of...

But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up...

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Paul Robeson: The patter of...

Paul Robeson: The patter of...

The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of...

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Satchel Paige: Age is a...

Satchel Paige: Age is a...

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

Source:...

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Bob Gibson: I guess I...

Bob Gibson: I guess I...

I guess I was never much in awe of anybody. I think you have to have that attitude if you're going to go far in this...

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Althea Gibson: Most of us...

Althea Gibson: Most of us...

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay...

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All of childhood's...

All of childhood's...

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey...

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Bitterness is like...

Bitterness is like...

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all...

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The most imaginative...

The most imaginative...

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

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Language is a...

Language is a...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the...

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Authors are sometimes...

Authors are sometimes...

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to...

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