Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.