"A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it."

“In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.”

Source : Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.”

“Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”

Source : "Six Rules on How to Be Successful". Speech at the University of Southern California, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 15, 2009.

“When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.”

Source : Title of song (1977)

“A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.”

Source : Gayl Jones (2016). “The Healing”, p.30, Beacon Press

“To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.”

“A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.”

Source : "Jim Clyburn: Susan Rice Attacks Are Racial Code" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.

“By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.”