He turned the music up loud. So what if it would deafen him? It made him happy. Like it had so many times before.

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

Hate is a wounded heart.

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.