Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.