Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

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

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

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.