Education is very important to me, as is helping children.
The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme
Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.
The love of freedom is actually an aberration.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent
The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world
The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
I still feel like my game is very dangerous. I always will have my serve.
If you become obsessive in spiritual practice, if you just try and try, you are not going to be happy. You are going to be obsessive.
One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, into servitude, when they were carried out of Africa they left empty-handed, but they didn't leave empty-headed. They carried with them the culture they knew, the culture they had, and that culture reconstituted itself in all the places they went.