Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet.

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.

See, that’s the difference,” Mauvin said. “I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

People are afraid of what they do not understand.

The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

Don’t worry about your future, Washington will take care of everything for you.