Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Live life as if it were created just for you.