Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They're just my kind of people.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

I am hunted by humans.

It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.

A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

Only hearts... They're in the inside of the inside of me.

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Things always seem to glide away. They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.