The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

If you ask every American out there what kind of a people we are, we would all say, "Oh, we're really good people. We do good things in the world." Then you go around the world and ask what America is like, there's a completely different conceptualization of what we are.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose.

When I was in high school if you were black and lived in Detroit, and you wanted to drive down to Florida to go on vacation, you had to plan to drive all the way through, because you couldn't stop in a hotel all the way through South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. We can't even fathom such a thing now, can we?

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.