Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

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.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

I believe that love and peace are the right way to confront tyranny.

For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!

If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart.

I would like to think I will be a guy who knows when it's time to stop. I don't want to be a guy who hung on and hung on. I do not have a goal in mind of a year or a statistic.

If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.

The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.