"For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I dont give up. Never have. Never will."

“When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com

“Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.”

“Ignorance is the mother of admiration.”

Source : George Chapman, Akihiro Yamada (1975). “The Widow's Tears”, p.59, Manchester University Press

“Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.”

“We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.”

“Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.”

“The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him”

“Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.”

Source : "The Joys of Technology: Burying Ourselves in Capabilities" by Philip Slater, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2007.