All racists are irresponsible.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

Real estate is still a great investment opportunity for households. Price appreciation will continue. It may not be at 20%. It may ... even go down to 5%.

That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

True vision is the ability to see in another more than they are showing you.