The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Nothing is more important than a good education.

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.

I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.

I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.

People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

Even if it's a sequel, lots of people have to give their all to make a game, but some people think the sequel process happens naturally.

Theory now: concern for truth must not hobble our discussion.

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.

A good teacher teaches people how to see, not what to see.