He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

Never ask a woman about other men.Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place.

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

Do what you can today. And keep working up until you can do everything you want to do in the day, every day.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

You can build a much more wonderful company on love than you can on fear.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.

We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.