My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

Charles Baudelaire

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

Josh Billings

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Buddha

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

Mark Twain

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

Major Owens

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

William Arthur Ward

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

Henry Miller

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

George Bancroft

Faith is important to me.

Vera Farmiga