We are the stories we tell ourselves

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Everyone belongs to God. Rather black or white there is no colour for God. He loves all.

Every man is the son of his own works.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

No one should ever preach on the topic of hell without a tear in his eye.

When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. "So I guess we saved each other.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.

If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.