Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.

When young people are insecure, they find ways to manufacture love tests – personal metrics to reassure themselves.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

The intelligence gap is essentially a shortage of executives with superior thinking skills who are needed by every business, as compared with the number of decision-making positions available.

Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.

The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.