We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

Stretch your mind and fly.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.

‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.

Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.