Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.