But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

A societies needs determines their ethics

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.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

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.