Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.

We will see every human beings as Christ and we will help Hindus to be better Hindus, Muslims to be better Muslims, and Christians to be better Christians"(Mother Teresa).

This is what I call life: a woman to love, a job to do, and a cause to fight

Be encouraged to Soulfully affirm all that is duty bound to unfold in your life.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.

Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind