I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.

A measured response trumps a triggered reaction every time. Breathe first.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue.But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.