When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

A mother’s dedication to her child is legendary.

No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

Personally I would like to see that the nuclear age, in terms of power, does come, because there's no long-term future for developing countries without nuclear power.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy

Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.