"I think aerobatic pilots make the best pilots because you know, you're just so confident in an aeroplane. If you're gonna get into trouble, I'd rather be with someone that's a skilled aerobatic pilot."

“Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.”

“Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.”

“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”

“I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.”

Source : "Father I know that all my Life, Hymns and Meditations" by Anna Laetitia Waring, (p. 2), 1850.

“God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.”

“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.”

“I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.”

“Awaken and rejoice. Awaken and be alive. Awaken to the possibility of being fulfilled.”