Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

I'm all about wellness.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.