Without humility there can be no humanity.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.