By choosing to hang on to your corner of freedom in even the worst situations, you can process your world with the energy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend your circumstances.

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?

The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.

We have to overcome our societal conditioning which says we are unworthy.

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.