But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Passion is everything...so make it happen

The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.

If I do not personify God, you call me an atheist. But I do not personify God because I refuse to limit God to the boundaries of my imagination... or yours.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.