You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

Public opinion only affects those who do not know their destiny.

Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I.

The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.

I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel.

I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.

I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

No one can have it all, at the same time. I've never seen that.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.