With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

history has no overall direction or purpose

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.