Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day

Every generation needs the instruction and insights of past generations in order to forge its own vision.

You may not be responsible for getting knocked down, but you're certainly responsible for getting back up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it then I can achieve it.

And once you're prepared, you never know what roads will open up. And if you're prepared it does not matter. If there's a road you can pursue it. If there's no road, you can carve it through bushes.

Your children need your presence, more than your presents.

It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes.... Keep hope alive.

Exercise the right to dream. You must face reality-- that which is. But the dream of the reality that ought to be, that must be.