I was very productive as a senator for my state.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.

You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

It's never too late to start the day over.

How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.