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.

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.

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.

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

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

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.

In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.

Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important

Wouldn't it be amazing if we spent as much energy investing in experiences as we do investing in things?

My mother. She's 65 now and she has immaculate style. And that's exactly what I want to be.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

Hitler was without a doubt exceptional in his criminal deeds. Yet in many respects, he was not at all out of the ordinary.