I would rather fail doing God's work than have a pseudo-victory being co-opted by someone else.

I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

We should be supportive of the president and supportive of rights of all in a pluralistic democracy that we're called to love. And we live our faith; we don't legislate our faith.

Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

If you're wrong, admit it!

There is a lesson to be learned from everyone you meet

Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.

China has other problems, but the devaluation has allowed them to make it impossible for us to compete.

I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.

Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

The language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.