Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

A dream without a fight is a nightmare.

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Too ridged an image of how things should be can completely scuttle any potential success.

I've been very lucky. I've had my problems in the past, I've had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

It is not the life that matters, but the journey.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.