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.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

Dig deep for you to discover the misery of success – success has miseries that are hidden in failure and those miseries cannot befriend those who sit at the comfort zone.

Don’t fight change

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.

I wanted to be a teacher. My dad was a teacher.

To me, defense is a mental attitude…it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.