You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get

A memory can taint your dreams

This isn't London, sweetheart. This is New York City and we can spot a fraud from a mile away.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Inside each person is a divine being that yearns to come into full expression

I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.

The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.