[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

People make the rules of society, not God.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

They are 1% rich because they aren't 99% dumb

It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.

Remember that your natural state is joy.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.