Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.

You can’t shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.

You can’t afford to limit your joy. It has been proven several times that angry people are never happy people.

Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.

The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.

Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.

Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.

Sometimes, people don’t need our monies and our treasures. All they need is our encouragements to give them hope.

After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?

I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. What I never knew, though, was that I was actually stronger than I thought I was.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

Hate is funny. Love isn't. Love can kill you. Hate can keep you alive.

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.