I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in....

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.