It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.