The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

Peggy Noonan

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

George Bernard Shaw

Your range of available choices -- right now -- is limitless.

Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Alexander Hamilton

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

Le Corbusier

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is the sin that believes in nothing,cares for nothing,seeks to know nothing,interferes with nothing,enjoys nothing,hates nothing,finds purpose in nothing,lives for nothing,and remains alivebecause there is nothing for which it will die.

Dorothy L. Sayers, On Boredom

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

Nicholson Baker

Wenn wir träumen, betreten wir eine Welt, die ganz und gar uns gehört.

J.K. Rowling

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

Hillary Clinton

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of hap

Thomas Jefferson