Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.