David Alan Royster

You first.’ The only way love works.

The best thing that’s ever happened to me is still happening.

Lasting love and forgiveness are two sides of the same page.

Women should serve men. Men should serve women. Any house of peace is full of servants.

Trust. Above all, I ask for trust. You won’t know every thought that crosses my mind, but just know that they’re all for us.

Provided that he only broke you into pieces, you still have it all, like a pizza in slices, every. bite, delicious. You may not feel whole, but you are no less because of a feeling.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.