Dear Optimism, nice to see you. I've got an extra room, how about you stay for a while.

it is always yesterday, tomorrow, and 3 years ago today. It is always your birthday. It is always the future, the present, and the past. It is always eternity that will last.

If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal.

I am at times prisoner to the darkness. Light will find a way in I am always assured. The sun has not died. The moon has not died. I live.

We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished. We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful.Yet we still know that we can love deeply.

What are we doing? Are we talking? Are we having fun? Are we building, destroying, remembering, or forgetting love?

I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences.

I jumped into a crowd full of "u"s they turned into underscores. Hit the pavement hard.” visualization words

Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.

Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests

I think all presidents should take the long view of history.

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

There is nothing to be intimidated about - it's just another long run where a few more people show up and they happen to wear numbers.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.