What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Walk while you can.

Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.

There are two kinds of statistics the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.