Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.

Gratitude promotes good well-being.

A great Country is not the Country with a great population, but a Country with a great number of persons that believe in entrepreneurship.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.

If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

I'm like President Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in.