Know thy opportunity.

You should know which opportunities to choose.

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Do well the duty that lies before you.

Know your opportunity.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

Javascript is the duct tape of the Internet.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.

If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart.

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.