We can sometimes love what we do not understand but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

Sunshine is a light.May the sunshine brighten your path of life.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

I certainly never saw myself as posh.

Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?