Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

The Universe, is a woman - and she lives forever. 27.03.13

Stressed, depressed, but well dressed.

Leadership is about we, not me.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.