We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

It comes from within.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.

Know that whoever is trying to bring you down, is already below you.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

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