The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

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.

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.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

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 trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!