If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.

Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.

Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.

It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.

On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient.

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

Let there be truth between us.

We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.

The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.