The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

You don't wait for love to happen to you. You go out there and feel the breeze and sniff the air! The fragrance of love will come wafting towards you in no time!

Our dreams are a serious matter. When you take them seriously, everyone else does too.

...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

You can't hide broccoli in your glass of milk.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence