No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation

Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt.

The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.