"The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka."

“It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

“What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.”

Source : Dinesh D'Souza (1996). “The End of Racism: Finding Values In An Age Of Technoaffluence”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

“Utopia is not one of the options.”

“Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.”

“We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”

Source : "Woman Suffrage", Vol. 4 by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, 1902.

“Be able to laugh at difficulties.”

“The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.”

“Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to eat in places that served the public. This battle led to the lunch counter sit-ins, which became embattled, contested places.”