And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

Russia is leading a movement around the world to spread autocracy and authoritarianism.

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls.

I hate tears, it makes it easy to forget someone.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

I can't deal with criticism very well. I've already got it from one angle. I don't need it from anything else.

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.