Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

History is the key to citizenship.

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Curled up in bed, I’m young in the old way.

Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again.