Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

Live in peace and harmony with all people.

Speculators always present opportunities for genuine investors to -- pick under-priced stocks, and- exit over-priced

Pamper no temptations! Once you are the driver on the steer of your life, choose to knock down every obstacle and challenge on your way to fulfillment.

Speech is silver silence is golden.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

The part of life which we really live is short.