My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

Joan Baez

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.

Source Unknown

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Gerald Jampolsky

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I'm poor, not homeless.

Simone Elkeles

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Trina Paulus

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Plato

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

Anthony Burgess

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sophocles

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

J.K. Rowling

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

John Henrik Clarke