“Learn wider, grow wiser!”

“You must believe what God’s Word says about you more than you believe what others say or what your feelings or own mind says.”

“Russia alone is to be the savior of Europe.”

“They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. It wasn't a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around. Only white culture could be neutral and objective. Only white culture could be nonracial, willing to adopt the occasional exotic into its ranks. Only white culture had individuals. And we, the half-breeds and the college-degreed, take a survey of the situation and think to ourselves, Why should we get lumped in with the losers if we don't want to? We become only so grateful to lose ourselves in the crowd, America's happy, faceless marketplace; and we're never so outraged as when a cabbie drives past us or the woman in the elevator clutches her purse, not so much because we're bothered by the fact that such indignities are what less fortunate coloreds have to put up with every single day of their lives-- although that's what we tell ourselves-- but because we're wearing a Brooks Brothers suit and speak impeccable English and yet have somehow been mistaken for an ordinary nigger. Don't know who I am? I'm an individual!”

“Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but an encouraging word makes it glad. PROVERBS 12:25”

“Passion gives you energy.”

“There are many emotions we have to resist, but happiness is not one of them! So go ahead and be as happy as you can possibly be.”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“Each of us is an original.” 

“When the going is hardest, just keep on keeping on, and you’ll get there sooner than someone who finds the going easy.”

“Faith isn’t pretending our problems don’t exist, nor is it simply blind optimism. Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.”

“Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame!”

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. —”

“Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.”

“It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself."