You were born to be among the advisors and thinkers, the spiritual and moral leaders for your society. There is every reason for pride.

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

Make good boundaries your goal. They are your right, your responsibility, your greatest source of dignity.

An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.