And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

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.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

You stop worrying about things, just go with the ones you like, and there you'll find happiness and joy.

She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.

I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

Have faith in yourself. Think yes not no. Live life to the full. Never give up.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

God does not offer us a way out of the testings of life. He offers us a way through, and that makes all the difference.