When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

Don't give up! Don't give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.

I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.

I try to do one to two days with no meat. I try to lessen my gluten. Those are things that I struggle with.

Change your 'Nafs', change the world.

There are eleven or twelve or thirteen cities in China with populations of over 10 million people and most people in the West have never even heard of these cities.