We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?