My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

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.

There's this shop in New York I go to it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith.

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

An economy is not a complicated thing; it just has a lot of moving parts.

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.