To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.

Focus means being diligent. Diligence always leads to wealth.

Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

If you stop building stars, which we never do, you wouldn't be in business.