The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.

Solutions to mankind’s problems are easy and obvious. They remain unsolved because those who could solve them – don’t want to.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.

It doesn't matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your - whatever you excel at, you're there to take care of the job that you have to do.

Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.