If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Defining child care primarily as womens sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

I'm ugly.

We measure everything - why not governance?

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it was just a feeling that felt good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.

In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Revenge leads to an empty fullness like eating dirt.

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you.

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

I gave my heart to a man who loved me who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.

I think that's the key for a good team, to work together like a family. It's something that I've learned over the years with the experience that I've gotten over 10 seasons.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.