A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

So what motivates you more? The fear of failure or the fantastic feeling of achieving your dreams?

Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.

Being discriminatory is necessary if you want to make a lot of money.

Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.