racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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.

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.

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.

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

Iggy. This is not a democracy, " I said, (...)"It'sa Maxocracy.

Adversity is the door to opportunity.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform, ' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.

People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.

I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

I don't need to do all the trash talking. I try to do it with my fists, my knees, and my feet.

As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.