When there's darkness on earth, be a light in the world.

Those who are determined to succeed are those who eventually succeed.

Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.

On the other side of fear is your breakthrough.

Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times.

Know your enemy, but don't give him all your energy.

Anybody who leads with hate, is not fit for leadership.

If you stop feeding strife, it will eventually lead to a peaceful life.

What you're going through is not meant to hurt you, but meant to deliver you from the evil oppressing you.

Often the thing that brings you the most pain is the very thing that will lead you to the most gain and your breakthrough.

If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

​Tomorrows dreams are important but to make the present meaningful is a far better dream.

My God is better than your God

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

With you nothing is simple yet nothing is simpler

We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.