After 40, one's face begins to tell more than one's tongue.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

As many serve the Virgin as serve God.

Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.