has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

May our twilights mix togetherlike breath and breathlessness.

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

All I can go on is my own value system.

Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.

You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm." "Voyons, do you think that is what I like?

If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.

A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.

Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.