Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

The US must be the honest broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. America needs to be to both of them what neither could be to the other: a trusted brokering partner. It is in their interest and our interest for America to play that role.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.