We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

Whining is just unbecoming.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.