Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.

And then I settled into the most natural thing for a man with no real talents. Journalism.

Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

But wanderlust is like a pretty girl - you wake up one morning, find she's grown old and decide that either you're going to commit your life or you're going to walk away.

In Detroit, we all talked the race game. It is a way of life.

Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids.

He no playa the game, he no maka the rules.

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

I don't believe in yesterday.

I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

At one time I thought that if I could really understand renunciation and bodhichitta from the depths of my heart, then, for this lifetime that would be enough.