Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

To stand still is to regress.

Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.

I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!