Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.

Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.

Time is more than life, it is afterlife.

People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up.