Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

You can tell how boring a person is by the lack of fear in their eyes when someone is flipping through photos on their phone.

We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

The House is in the house" Chapter 38

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.