I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.