"I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now."

"Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring."

"When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time."

"If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house."

"It is a humble truth that every second given to regret is a precious second stolen from creation — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that true knowledge is found not in possessing answers, but in continually asking the right questions."

"Wisdom principle 72 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 37."

"It is a subtle truth that a steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest."