I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Look for the beauty in things.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby." And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.