It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.

I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.

Most of what we see are white people.

I don't see race. I don't see color.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.

Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal

When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

And the question is, which one is really "you.

I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.