Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.

Don't think that your first love has to be your only love.

If you make more appointments with quality people, you will have less disappointments with non-quality people.

A lot of people have the answers after the results come in.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

We can have enough clean energy to power every home.

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.