The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.

You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.