Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.

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.

All around us, birds woke up the sky.

The world of books is my fantasy.

The future shines so bright, lets be the brick that paves the way to a positive future.

I got that money on my mind but I ain't blind. I see that if I want it, I have to grind.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.