A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.