A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.

Holy mother!""Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference."-Hephaetus

While we are floating against the current toward the future, our minds stay behind with the anchoring memories of the past.

Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations.

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.

My father, never chooses me for anything. Unless he needs a human shield. Thirty years and all I am to him is a hunk of meat to block buck shot. Told you dad needed me. Who's the best man now?

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.