At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.

Prejudice is a seeping, dark stain, I think, more difficult to fight than hatred-which is powerful and violent and somehow more honest.

You can never tell what will happen to a theory before you can get around to using it.

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

Everything exists as information in a field of infinite possibilities, and it is our Consciousness that renders the information and causes it to appear as the material world.

I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.