If you have health insurance, then you don't have to do anything. If you've got health insurance through your employer, you can keep your health insurance, keep your choice of doctor, keep your plan.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.

Not to be the salt and light on earth is to lack understanding

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.