Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people.

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

Our potential is determined by God’s potential. His potential is unlimited

You need to open up your soul and have a weep-a-thon.

It could be that it's not that different. Circumstances, no matter what the color is, could be similar.

Silence is not lost time.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

What you think and do today determines how tomorrow is going to be.

Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.

When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."