We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will always kill me.

The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.

To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.

I prepare mentally and physically for everything I do. I like having to do both, because you submerge yourself into the character and the world and you live it until it's over.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.