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

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."

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 never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

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.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

Whatever good religion has done, it has come at a terrible price.

Miss me? Bet you did ... so would I.

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.