Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and freeWhether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a treeOr rolled in the arms of some nymph of the seaWhich is where we would all like to be, man!

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

I and my silences keep talking to each other.

Positives can always be found in anything that is faced as long as the correct attitude can be maintained.

Economic crises breed war.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time