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.

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.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life.

If you want to learn new things in life, make you busy in finding new people.

One cannot think that blind bravery gives victory over the enemy.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)