Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

All wisdom ends in paradox.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week.