I just want to do as much as I can while I can, because none of us are promised anything.

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.

Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher.

You are rich when you are happy with what you have.

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

Money is the root of all good.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.