Buzzie Bavasi

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I’m grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I’ve had, but I always believe I won’t have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.