Sometimes even your friends don't understand your calling, your purpose, your vocation. But you have to stand in your truth anyway, and they will eventually come around to understanding you, if you do it lovingly.

We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me that water is going to be the resource into the future that we're really - that countries, nations, are going to be fighting for control over.

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

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

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