The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

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.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...

People with fewer economic resources have very limited opportunity for joining the global internet economy.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip gloss in.

there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

Make greatness attainable by all.

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.