My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man?s struggle and his problems as well...

Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement. Charles F. Kettering, quoted in Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18,...

What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame?...

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. Brandon Lee

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? Ronnie Shakes

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengal

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: “It seemed a good idea at the time.” Dame Rebecca West

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 130