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.

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.

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!

Hope is the passion to receive your heart’s desires.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.

It's a privilege to act, and you have to protect and cherish it.

What is better than a peaceful man? What is worse than an aggressive man?

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.