Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.