I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro.

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro.

Oh no, I am descended from the important Carters.

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.

It is very sad about Michael Jackson, much as in the tragic cases of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and other celebrities who have died are a result of drugs. It is always sad when such a bright light goes out.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

A daughter is a little girl who grows up to be a friend.

It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.

Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

When I retired and told my wife I wanted to go back to Bozeman and fight political corruption and get involved in politics, she decided to stay in Seattle.

The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense - a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta-information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

The Saudi government uses a lot of British equipment to suppress their own people. But we're happy for our politicians to go on advertising trips to Saudi, selling our weapons at the trade conventions.

The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ultimate spiritual and psychological statement that could be made in architectural terms.