I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

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.

The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.

Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes.

I think the person who has the experience, the depth and the values to take us forward is Theresa May who I think will be absolutely outstanding.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

Story is a sacred visualization, a way of echoing experience.