There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.