My love is as a fever, longing still.
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.
Everyone moans about the collapsing U. S. infrastructure.
I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.