Eubie Blake

Listen to the birds and don’t hate nobody.

Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

If I’d known I’d live to be a 100 I’d have taken much better care of myself.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

America is one of the few places in the world where a poorperson can still be obese.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…