“Most of us, in our civilized society, rely too heavily on reasoning capacity to make things happen. We've been raised to believe that logic will prevail. Logic, in and of itself, will rarely influence people. Most often logic doesn't work.”

“You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

“No' is a reaction, not a position. The people who react negatively to your proposal simply need time to evaluate it and adjust their thinking. With the passage of sufficient time and repeated efforts on your part, almost every 'no' can be transformed into a 'maybe' and eventually a 'yes'.”

“We are raised in a society where we are taught to believe a more logical reason for an illogical happening rather than the illogical reason for something which may be of the unknown, hence, why the logical answer is illogical to the logical person.”

“Many people succeed when others do not believe in them. But rarely does a person succeed when he does not believe in himself.”

“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.”

“Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.”