The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Intuitive responses are responses which originate from joy.

Far more creativity, today, goes into marketing of products than into the products themselves

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

I think it doesn't matter what type of helmet you wear. If you don't know the hit is coming your body is not going to tense up and get ready for impact.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

Whether my days are cooled with calm or filled with fever's ardent taint, I have the same blue sky as God, I have the same God as the saint.