And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.

I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.

Time define the deeds of the moment.

I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.

Don't tear other people down. Lift people up.

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.