America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Celebrate your life now, as it unfolds. Turn away from judgement and negative theories about your worth, your potential, and your destiny. See what you already have.

A student who is becoming better than his master is a bright student

I love supporting blue chip companies’ revival. Shows wise when you are on the top and you are still not ignorant & arrogant to realise your weaknesses.

For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.

I have dated all races and I believe you should be free to do whatever you want.

It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.