There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.

If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.