If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant.

Asking someone to deny their own inner reality causes further rupture.

Additions like to enter without knocking, you just have to close the door for good...

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

You can tell I have kids right? Just so I don't break out into a Barney tune here in three minutes.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.