If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

I try to see every day as a celebration.