From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.

I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread.

Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn't get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

Christmas is the one day of the year when it's most obvious someone's missing. It had to become less about the presents.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

The trick is to steal big.

Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.