It's not about how fast you are during any race but it's about your ability to dodge the obstacles in front of you.

Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered.

Your perception will determine your reception

Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.