The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy].

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...

People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things, Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli.

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.