For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

I trade all my pains for the peace of God.

He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns.

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.