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“Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.”
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“Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.”
Source : "What does it mean to be Asian American? / The passing of Cal Prof. Ronald Takaki, who helped define the term, leads Jeff Yang to reflect on its relevance in the Age of Obama" by Jeff Yang, www.sfgate.com. June 4, 2009. 
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“People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.”
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“The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.”
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“We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision”
Source : Sarah Weddington (2013). “A Question of Choice: Roe v. Wade 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.156, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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“Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.”
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“My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.”
Source : Rachel Held Evans (2010). “Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions”, p.195, Harper Collins
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“We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.”
