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Comedy is acting out optimism.

We can't help everyone,

but everyone can

help someone.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable,

but giving up is unforgivable.

You're lazy.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Friendship is always

a sweet responsibility,

never an opportunity.

Music is the way I communicate with the world.

People with great gifts are easy to find,

but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Nobody knows the system better than me.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

In skating over thin ice

our safety is in our speed.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year

you’re going to double your inventiveness.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

One of the most striking differences between a cat

and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Efficiency is doing things right;

effectiveness is doing the right things.

No one is useless in this world

who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge,

passion and compassion.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes

liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Destroy this spirit and you have planted

the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.