God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don'….

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power a….

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….