Approximately four years ago, we were told that Jerry Rice would be a free agent and there were people who felt that he no longer could contribute.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

There must be some atom of our life hidden here, lingering in this quiet somewhere.

You are a big country now but you still tend to feel small and fragile. If the United States gets a cold you get pneumonia.

Respect is not ever assigned it's earned.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Grief isn't all tears.

[T]he only good loan is one that gets paid back.