Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

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.

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

Your greatest weapon is your enemy's mind

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.

The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves.

What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.