If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.