In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.

I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

Home is the place where there is somebody who does not wish you any pain.

You can get away with anything as long as it works.

I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake.

It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine.

People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."

The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.

If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.

The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.

My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face.

There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!

You have to be a little bit crazy to run for president.

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.