Leadership must be established from the top down.

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.

We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.

It's very hard for Europe, the US and Russia to have much influence on the growing problems elsewhere in the world unless we have our own backyard in a more stable and cooperative atmosphere.

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let one of our ships be put into a war zone like that.

Business succeed when friends and relatives pays their bills promptly.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them.

Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time. I realized this isn't the life I want to live being locked up 24 hours a day.

When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.