Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.
Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired.