People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

One person can change the world.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.

You cannot give what you don't have

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.

The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

Your life is constantly nourished by your thoughts. Whatever the direction your life is moving, your thoughts have led you there.

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.