Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

We make art to feel life. We do science to understand it.

In your walk with Christ, you shall meet crises, but, when crises arise, remember Christ!

From the moment I saw you, I wanted you in my dreams

Personal publicity of every kind is utterly distasteful to me, and I have made greater efforts to escape it than most people make to get it.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.