If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

All is not gold that glisters.

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.