The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

Focus means exercising the self-discipline required to keep your time, energy and attention directed towards the outcomes you have chosen whilst avoiding all distractions – good or bad.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

My mind ran over everything that had happened lately, and running on such thoughts made even my feet hurt.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

As a 25 year director of a non-profit program I began to see the need to shift from only doing projects/programs to also doing policy work.

Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.

Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.