"Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros."

“The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.”

“Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.”

“There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

“If you stop and confine yourself to one place, you will develop prejudices.”

“What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.”

“I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.”

“People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like”