Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both.

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth