For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them–if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know’ and thou shalt progress.
There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it