“George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.”

These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

If you wear a hoodie but aren’t registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.

If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.

He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

I’d rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I’d rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.