To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

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

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.

Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.