Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Let all children come unto me.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

You just do it one step at a time.

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.