My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

Terrorism is not new to black people.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

You're in love, that's what your problem is.

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

People are working hard in the USA to make things. And I want to help them do it even more.

I try to get up every day.

I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't.

I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.

I've been performing my whole life.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.