Saying good-bye properly afforded me a measure of peace. It was a binding of a different sort, absent of the earth's power, but still hard proof that there is magic yet in the world.

Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.

Getting weak is easy. It's staying strong that makes you.

Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Goodbys always make my throat hurt... I need more hellos.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.

When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.