I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

Every year, some 65, 000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.

Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation.

Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.

The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world.

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.

When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.