Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
You never know what motivates you.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
After a storm comes a calm.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.