I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.

Those who say that money can’t buy you love make it sound as if love can buy you money.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.

I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like, "Uh, I don't know..."

Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.