What kind of power was it if it would never be used?

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires.

I'm naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.

RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.