Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don’t allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don’t allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.