Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Laughter is to the soul what sunshine is to a flower.

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

We live in an era where it ain't about dope rhymes. When beef is online, and how big is your co-sign.

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

Every man has two countries: his own and France.