Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Be present to this moment and open endless doors of awareness. Now is where the joy is

Genius - the pursuit of madness.

There is not a more powerful weapon upon this earth capable of inflicting more damage, pain and suffering than a betrayal of the heart.

If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience; and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

I believe in Scotland's place within the United Kingdom today as much as ever.

Nature is God's Old Testament.