If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.
My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.
I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is the daughter of enslaved people and who has found a way to be hopeful and create love and value justice and seek peace is a remarkable person.
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.
He was living proof that this country can improve. That, as a nation, we can peacefully confront historic wrongs and right them. John Lewis may be gone but his message and his legacy remains.
There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.
A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?
Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God, I think. He's the father of mankind, almost.
I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
For all of our history, it has been an article of faith that we in America bestow unto our children and grandchildren a nation that is stronger than the one we were given.
Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.
If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.
