Underachieving people, use little chitchats had with successful people as gate passes to obtain entrance into places their reputation cannot get them.

A good education must expose knowledge gaps and increase the hunger for further inquiries.A good education is not complete.

One of the most effective ways to empower a group is to help them get finance.Yes, money.Whether it be women, minority groups etc.Without economic independence, freedom is a hoax

It is not who will eat beans, but who will pick it that is scarce.

Show me a universal life manual and I will show you a ready-made scam.Life is spontaneous. Live and learn.

The greatest and toughest part of learning is unlearning to learn.

Suicide is not criminal. However, a failed attempt at it is. I wonder how someone will so much fail in life to want to take his own life and still fail at it.

Hate and envy are like a bomb that cannot destroy anything without first destroying itself.

It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable.

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasure.

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody, I was taught to love and forgive, which I do have in my heart.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.