You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Attitudes are capable of making the same experience either pleasant or painful.

It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?