“Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.”

“"The pen is mightier than the sword," you say. Get out your pens and prepare to have your logic tested by steel.”

“Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.”

“A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”

“We in Africa are always on the receiving end. We have had human slavery, political slavery, economic slavery and now religious slavery. We in the church are saying no. We are prepared to live by what God says, not what you say. Man shall not sleep with man, woman shall not sleep with woman.”

“If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.”

“Why give up before we try
Feel the lows before the highs
Clip our wings before we fly away
I can't say I came prepared
I'm suspended in the air
Won't you come be in the sky with me”

“Prepare your mind to live in the company of evil people, with your mind unsullied; to do this is to live like an angel.”

“I flatter myself, when your Excellency takes a, view of the state things were in when I first engaged, and consider the short time we had to make the preparations for the opening campaign, and reflect with what ease and facility you began your march from Valley Forge, and continued it all through the country r notwithstanding we went great part of the way entirely out of the line of preparations, you will do me the justice to say I have not been negligent or inattentive to my duty.”

“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”