There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.

I look up and watch the bad parts of me shrinking to dots in the wide blue.

There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.