Pleasure is a physical experience.

Without surprises life could be boring.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone at a party, you can get an idea. But you've got to remember those inspirations.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he is well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.