Society becomes how you behave.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

Commitment is a function of two things: clarity and buy-in

Put your heart mind intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety other women cloy the appetites they feed but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who's like a child.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.