Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

...there is a void in my guts which can only be filled by songs.

The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valor.

How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

I'm leaving town cause my children are acting too much like me.

I'm able to live as an example of what I believe.