A person has to be busy to be alive.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

And if I have the gift of prophesy, all-wisdom and great faith but without love, I am nothing.

But it was smell that carried memory.

Wheels turning, the motorcycle’s roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence.

Any effort made in the present is like an investment in the future.

When you have to made a decision, there's no return, keep this in your mind.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

Do you want my input or is this just an angry tirade you need to vent? (Acheron) Both! (Kat) Okay, you rant and I’ll add my comments at the end. (Acheron)

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.