Racism is a common delusion, a mental illness that can be cured with truthful education.

The future begins today.

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help.

Would I always look back on this moment with regret, no matter which choice I made?

As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

We're all related. We're all a family.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.