Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

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

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

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.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, and one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.