None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

For things to change, you have to change.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.