There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

History is the key to citizenship.

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.

Capital creates space-time.

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

Do not act following customary beliefs.

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.

Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.