Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

My kids want to go back to Detroit everyday, that's their home. They want to be there. But Detroit is going through something that I don't want to be a part of.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.

God is our loving Father who loves his children perfectly. So, every part of his Word is an expression of his love to us.

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.