Don't try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start.

Be happy, and the reason will appear.

Learning and seeing are more important than education.

Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.

We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

"Just give your life to us and stop worrying about things," is what Obama's message is, and people don't want to do that.

If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.