As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

I'll shower, then we can go. I smell like a zombie."Hell, if the undead looked like that, bring on the zombie apocalypse.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

I don't like losing. I like winning. I don't like to lose beautiful matches. I like to win ugly ones.

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.