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

I need to work outside government, on my own.

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.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

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

Service is what life is all about.