Quotes on Life

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.