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

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.

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

Society becomes how you behave.

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

of course play with others life if you are good playerBut once you have to think How your reaction if your children meet with same player like you ?is it make you happy ? then continue

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.