I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.
There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.
When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.