I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

We recognised that the youth demographic needed to be pursued, preferably with dogs.

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.