There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.