My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.

We think that comfort and convenience will bring happiness and forget that only love can do that.

It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on.

The government wields a heavy hand, which is often used in an underhanded way.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!