The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

I look after people.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.