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 trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

Coca Cola’s Eva Water has hypnotized you into thinking that a sip of rainwater can kill you.

Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.