The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The most important thinganyone who is looking at a career, especially students, can do is toremember that strengthening and developing your employ-abilityis your personal responsibility.

Injurious Personis not the Person who got Hurt, Its a person who got Learned.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.

If you wish to marry well, inquire well.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.