"Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."

"Choose people who lift you up."

"I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets."

"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong."

"It is a profound truth that the roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation."

"For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change."

"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."