This is the team. We're trying to go to the moon. If you can't put someone up, please don't put them down.

[John] Kobak explained, 'The way you learn anything is that something fails, and you figure out how not to have it fail again.

Hope is like a bud that holds the hidden beauty of a flower.

The spirituality of your soul will lead to your survival in life.

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven

Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.

The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!