In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Politicians just do an aerial survey of disasters. Genuine leaders carry out relief measures on ground zero.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Education pervades all forms of learning.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.  

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

And one more thing.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.