There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

The living moment is everything.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.