What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

I? This is the very root of all evil.

You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing.

A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

When I told you that I’d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.