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.

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.

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!

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

The perfect marriage is a uniting of three persons—a man and a woman and God. That is what makes marriage holy.

Failure is inevitable, and that the key to success is not dodging every bullet but being able to recover quickly.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

I know many of the critics and I don't think of them as God-like figures. What can they do to hurt me? Sure, I might be slightly embarrassed for a day, but then you just go your own way.

I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

He blew his mind out in a caaaar.

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.