I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.