The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

Convention is another name for the habits of society.