My mom and dad didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
In the past, we learned to cope with challenges ourselves. Today, a lot of people younger than me are not resistant to the vicissitudes and emotional challenges of life. If you’ve been told all your life that it’s the others who should spoil you and keep you free of problems, you’re probably a very sober person emotionally.
I believe that if you just get up and go, life will open up to you.
Money is not everything, only about 87.5 percent
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
Accepting your nose is the first step to self-love.
I’ve never worried about my color. I never had the black thing. If the whole world was like this, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe it is. I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
Suicide is never the answer. You must outlive your enemies.
You have to take the wrinkles that come. And all those who get their skin sprayed and look like wounded warriors for a long time, become very little prettier, but look so sour. The smile is actually the best face-lift, I think.
If you’re a giver, remember to learn your limits. Because the takers don’t have any.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
Stay away from negative people, they have a problem for every solution
The hardest thing about doing good business is avoiding doing the bad ones.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
Over the years, those who have seemed to me to be the most happy, contented and fulfilled have always been the people who have lived the most outgoing and unselfish lives.
I wish I was a cow eating grass in a field. No rent. No job. No college. Just moo.
Well but, everything has an end, and an earthworm it has two.
A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. This is where the rich use public transport.
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
I am completely overwhelmed. It’s a good thing you don’t turn 100 every day. Even though I don’t have that much energy anymore, I still want to take a few more years.