I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.

Keith Degreen

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.

Jason R. Thrift

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

Robert Duvall

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.

Germaine Greer

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Peter Drucker

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

Julian McMahon

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Katharine Graham

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

Henry Louis Gates

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

Lyn Nofziger

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

Beatrice Webb

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

John Mayer