The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Nothing worth doing ever came easy. Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.