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.

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?

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.

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

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.

Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are.