Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway.

I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. And so I find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. But If you get to down it, look, I`m going to root for someone, I`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.