Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

Assertiveness is most effective when least applied.

It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Being assertive in the home does not produce any smiling faces, but it does bring out a few tongues.

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

Our knowledge has limitations even though we have infinite imaginations.

the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

I see a lot of people of color in my fanbase and at all my shows, and it's really awesome.

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

I really don't think there should be a movie about me. That's for sure!

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great