"I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time."

"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."

"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship."

"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth."

"The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House."

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

"Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that a mind at peace can weather any storm."