Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.