Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

We cannot save ourselves. Only God has the power to save us.

Wisdom is reliable

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people - knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.