Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.
Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black man, whose culture he has self-consciously adopted. But he was reared largely by his white grandparents. He lived a kind of racially bipartisan experience, and he will be able to speak a language that resonates with both communities.
You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.