"I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere."

“To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.”

“Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.”

“You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.”

Source : Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

“An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.”

Source : George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.46

“I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.”

“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.”

“Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.”

Source : Wade Davis (2010). “The Serpent and the Rainbow”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

“The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.”