American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Being on the edge is always worse than going through

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

Your energy of love is so powerful that it can heal anything, including your future.

No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.