My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.