It's just a really sad commentary that they're just going ahead for the sake of going ahead. This is a behemoth of a memorial. Really, America's not coming to see this kind of underground water thing.

There is always opportunity until concrete is poured.

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung...We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t.

It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.