I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.