Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.