People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

Obedience to God will bring blessings to you and others.

The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

How can arguments based on fact prevail in a nation where so many people know so little?

My mind may be American but my heart is British.