Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

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.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

You clobber Death when he's breathing in your ear and see how you feel about the club.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

I'd probably like to get into acting - I've got lots of things that I could do, but at the moment it's just music, music, music.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.