Your Stupid quotes

How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

Everybody should be lucky enough to live as long as I have and be happy.

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision and tell them how lousy their work was.

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

I honestly try to have the approach that this is real life, this is the real world that we live in, and I don't really try to shelter [my son] from a lot of things that he's gonna see when he looks out of the window.

Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.

I don't really have an explanation. I'm struggling myself to comprehend what has happened and find a reason for it.