The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

We have to raise the status of girls and women in every country.

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

Recognize that both men and women might be more comfortable opening up to a woman than a man. Use that to your advantage.

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.