“If you’re going to hope for a change, you’d better start to pray for a change. If you’re just hoping, you ain’t going anywhere.”

You learn how to be a better person not just on the [race] track, but all around.

I want to be anywhere in the world that I’m needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.

We’re special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That’s not just my story. That’s your story. That’s our story.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.