Tell the truth and not the facts.

If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

When we know better, we do better.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.