I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that...

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith.

It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank...

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part...

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for homecoming.'

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because...

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a...

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.