People are rarely what they first appear—good, bad, or otherwise.

If I wish to kiss you, I will. No priest, no father, and no god will stop me.

Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling.

It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.

One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.

I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.

Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

You only know you love her when you let her go.

Men generally do not see women as competition.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.