Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

I found my voice in books.

Being lucky is in your hands as it’s outcome of your deeds.

It takes more than coming up with some great ideas to succeed in life. The land of success is only full of doers.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.

I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform.

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.