"Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood."

“I think that Mormonism as a whole has been misunderstood. So, I think, it's neat that people just get to learn a little bit more about what our faith is about and what we believe in.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

“I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

“If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.”

“Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.”

“Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.”

“Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.”

“I live to harass white folks.”

Source : Derrick A. Bell, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic (2005). “The Derrick Bell Reader”, p.471, NYU Press

“In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.”