I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.

I have often thought how much happier I should have been, if instead of accepting of a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket upon my shoulders and entered the rank, or if I could have justified the measure of posterity, and my own conscience, had retired to the back country, and lived in a wigwam. If I shall be able to rise superior to these, and many other difficulties which might be enumerated, I shall most religiously believe that the finger of Providence is in it, to blind the eyes of our enemies; for surely if we get well through this month, it must be for want of their knowing the disadvantages we labor under.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

Things do not get better by being let alone. Unless they are adjusted, they explode with shattering detonation.