We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.

We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

I use the phrase "fellow citizen" all the time when referring to the - people always say, "The American people, the American people." I prefer the phrase fellow citizen because there's a power in that, there's a responsibility, there's a duty in using that phrase fellow citizen.