It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done.

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

One of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done, I think all the mayors in America would agree, is have a detailed plan about how that money actually gets down to the ground fast.

The city of New Orleans showed America what it takes to rebuild a great place. We're all going together, and we're not leaving anybody behind.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.

They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.

Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.

It is a very difficult thing, to love another.To some it comes easily, naturally even. Whilst for others, the road to such things is long and arduous and fraught with danger.

What do you have that the Lord didn’t provide?What do you need that the Lord can’t provide?

We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.

Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?

Humanized gods are too small to captivate my imagination, or be worthy of my fullest allegiance.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

I didnt know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty