Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

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.

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

I was sad the show [Payne] only lasted one season. It was a big undertaking. It'd be fun to revisit, but it'll probably never happen.

When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing