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?

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

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

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.