I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.

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.

A high-performing digital mind can think logically, but outside of the box as well.

Of what need is teamwork without a common goal?

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

This does not mean, of course, that we must think of waiting for the age of universal harmony.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

We do not have weapons of mass destruction.

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.