Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy].

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

Life was all about consequences

I'm thinking the reason I've been so quiet all those years is only because Brian wasn't around yet for me to tell everything to.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.

She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in the first place.

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.