America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

To find inner peace, exercise kindness and compassion.

Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

Gratitude beats paucity. Love trumps hate and integrity and honor are more valuable than huge wealth.

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

As a clown, you're letting go of all of your bullshit.

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

Gratitude is the smile of love.

Morituri non cognant, perhaps. Those who are about to die — just don't know.