People who are following their dreams inspire me.

In L.A., you are your job.

My mother is a living angel

Intelligence is often viewed as a profession that steals secrets and then knits those secrets together for policymakers in order to inform their judgments.

Stopping me? That's impossible. There's not anything that can really stop me.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

Let me plead with you, lovers of my Africa, to carry with you into the world the vision of a new Africa