Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

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

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

I'm out and about meeting people all day long. And I'm very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

Prepare to win, or lose to someone who is.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

The more you have, the more you have that needs fixing.

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.