Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

Don't be vain. What you look like doesn't matter. It's the deed that matters.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Thought is the strongest thing we have.

I need my sleep. I need about eight hours a day, and about ten at night.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

Betwixt the stirrup and the ground Mercy I asked, mercy I found.