Race designation is a political designation.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

Fish without wine is like egg without salt.

Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.

Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.