Success is loving life and daring to live it.

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.