Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory out allowing for arbitrary power but be excessive, brusque use of it by a particular individual.

The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.

You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youʹd actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donʹt think sheʹs joking.

Love's core purpose is to always inspire us to become more wholesomely ourselves because of love's experience.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.