"School should be the best party in town."

“To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.”

“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.”

Source : Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

“... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!”

“I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.”

“I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!”

“The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.”

“An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.”

“The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.”