No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

To present is to take a stand and being responsible.

Is that love, do you think?" he asks, sounding genuinely curious. "Being crazy about someone no matter how much they hurt you?

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.