“As women of color, we have to make people understand not only what our skills and capabilities are, but what your aspirations are and what you want to achieve,”

“The Democratic Party will, one of these days, stop resisting the philosophy that President Kennedy briefly revived for his party. It will have to, if it ever again aspires to be the majority party.”

“It's the one thing everybody has in common, the aspiration to have a relationship with the United States . . . and also to express gratitude and patriotism to the United States for providing the opportunity.”

“No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration.”

“Challenge is not on its own. Changes and innovations we develop will be integrated into the existing technology which will improve the growing operation and should help its business aspirations.”

“She confronted an issue and owned up to it and took a lot of flak, and there was a lot of flak to take. But her strength is something that is aspired to by lots and lots of people in the U.K.”

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

The quicker your forget unpleasant instances and forgive yourself or others for wrong deeds, the better are your chances of focusing on your aspirations and working towards them.

“I never anticipated and never applied. It (a head coaching job) is nothing I ever really aspired to. I?m a teacher first and a coach second.”