Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

What we pass on moves forward to future generations. Never let anything important slip through the cracks.

Pain is nothing but the darkness that leads to the dawn of gain.

God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.

The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

All of us can meet God's high expectations.

I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?