You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.