How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

The new national campfire - radio.

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it.

It is hard to notice age in those who dream.

I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

No one tells me what to think. I think for me.

At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.