The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.
The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.
We're dependent on buying overseas productions and television shows. A lot of the time they come in packages, I think. You take the hit show and you take a couple of other unloved children that they want to get rid of along with the hit show.
To choose not to choose is still to act.