If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.

It was the ideal place where people call ‘home.

I know. You can be fine, and then, out of nowhere, a memory blindsides you.

Hatred is like a dam waiting to burst, and when it does, it is more devastating than what you had originally intended.

Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it.

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41).

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

I have no fear in moving up (in weight) and fighting.