Any sensible government must learn to unleash the energy of its people and get them to perform instead of trying to get a bureaucracy to perform.

I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.

a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little.

You have far more courage than you think you do.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

For women, I take inspiration from strong women with good aesthetics and integrity, and a little tomboy influence.

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.