“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.”

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.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.

To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

You can’t hate and ball at the same time

Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.