Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity.

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

The latest I like to be to meeting is 15 minutes early

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.

I actually do like playing off-beat people. I think it's more fun.

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.