You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

Facts can obscure the truth.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.