So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Romance is a veiled reality, while marriage is the unveiling of reality!

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

Your mind is a positive asset. Use it for positive thoughts.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.