We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

I dont think we have any time to waste.

There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

My body is a holy temple.

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.

Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.

And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me to dissect and understand.

The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.