I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

You can't have oil without oil spills.

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Service to the humanity is the source of joy and happiness. It is the rent you pay for living on this beautiful planet.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Where fear is happiness is not.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.

I say this thing about how I've never had to say my head is bloodied but not bowed, like everybody who came before me had to say. And that tells me that I can do a lot more than I think I can.

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.