I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

We each belong to and are needed in the family of God.

Even now, when I do a slide show of the Geek Squad story, the first slide is a photo of ramen noodles. Because for me, ramen noodles are the international symbol for struggle.

Without the bitter the sweet aint as sweet

The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

It’s not about how much pressure you put on, it’s how good you are at taking it off.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.

Art degraded, Imagination denied.