“When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.”

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’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

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

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

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

People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.

We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.

Keep hope alive!

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

When you feel like you’ve reached your limit, it’s only the beginning.

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.