I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

Nothing fairer than peace is given to man to know; Better one peace than countless triumphs

You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back.