The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

Don't give up! Don't give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

Some people will hate you for not loving them.

Loving like prayer is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

Every successful person in life began by pursuing a passion, usually against all odds.