If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [. . . ] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Race is still a powerful force in this country. Any African American candidate, or any Latino candidate, or Asian candidate or woman candidate confronts a higher threshold in establishing himself to the voters. . . Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics.
It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might have gotten a lot less than that. That's just the reality of politics.
I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet.
God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.