In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours.That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.

I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.