The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

I dont think we have any time to waste.

There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Keep experimenting, your divine self!

Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead perfect your love.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult.

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.

Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.

I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones.