The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

If you feel the need to laugh at people's weaknesses, laugh at yours first.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

I got scared away from the whole writing and producing thing, because of how really, truly difficult this was.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

Smiling the boy fell dead.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.