Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Communication works for those who work at it.

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

sick of it whatever it's called sick of the namesI dedicate every pore to what's here

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

When you mail Ichiro something from the States, you only have to use that name on the address and he gets it (in Japan). He's that big.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.