This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

The person I am today would like to thank the person I was 5 years ago for not giving up. You're awesome!

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.

Forbes has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.